Royce v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Bussard v. Ohio Department of Transportation (1986), White v. Ohio Department of Transportation (1990)
44 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 Conley v. Gibson · O'Brien v. University Community Tenants Union, Inc. · Fankhauser v. City of Mansfield · Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Watson Co. · 64 Ohio St. 2d 146 - Ditmyer v. Board of County Commissioners of Lucas County
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appear beyond all doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
1 later decision 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.