State ex rel. Evans v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 121 Ill. 2d 1 - People Ex Rel. Bernardi v. City of Highland Park (1988), Clermont Environmental Reclamation Co. v. Wiederhold (1982)
103 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 Northern Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Ass'n v. City of Parma · City of Canton v. Whitman · City of Eastlake v. Ohio Board of Building Standards · Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. v. City of Painesville · 120 Ohio St. 426 - City of Bucyrus v. State Department of Health
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[T]he primary purpose of the prevailing wage law is to support the integrity of the collective bargaining process by preventing the undercutting of employee wages in the private construction sector.’”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““The prevailing wage law evidences a legislative intent to provide a comprehensive uniform framework for inter alia, worker rights and remedies vis-a-vis private contractors, sub-contractors and materialmen engaged in the construction of public improvements in this state * * *. Above all else, the primary purpose of the prevailing wage law is to support the integrity of the collective bargaining process by preventing the undercutting of employee wages in the private construction sector.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is a fundamental principle of Ohio law that, pursuant to the `statewide concern' doctrine, a municipality may not, in the regulation of local matters, infringe on matters of general and statewide concern.”
3 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.