Hartt v. Munobe’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
311 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 311 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 111 Ohio App. 3d 357 - Kilroy v. B.H. Lakeshore Co. (1996), 136 Ohio App. 3d 211 - Harkai v. Scherba Industries, Inc. (2000)
311 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Knapp v. Edwards Laboratories · Normandy Place Associates v. Beyer · Ostrander v. Parker-Fallis Insulation Co. · 140 Ohio St. 535 - State Ex Rel. Buck v. McCabe · Kirkpatrick v. Kirkpatrick
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n appellate court reviewing a lower court's judgment indulges in a presumption of regularity of the proceedings below.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“oversight of an issue or issues, even an entire trial, is not a substitute for the [trial court's] judicial functions but only an aid to them. A trial judge who fails to undertake a thorough independent review of the [magistrate's decision] violates the letter and spirit of Civ.R. 53 * * * even where a jury is the factfinder, the trial court remains as the ultimate determiner of alleged error by a [magistrate]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“ultimate authority and responsibility over the [magistrate's] findings and rulings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.