Perotti v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
203 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Quonset Hut, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. (1997), Moore v. Emmanuel Family Training Center, Inc. (1985)
203 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 Pembaur v. Leis · DeHart v. Aetna Life Insurance · 6 Ohio St. 3d 348 - Svoboda v. City of Brunswick · Sizemore v. Smith · Maritime Manufacturers, Inc. v. Hi-Skipper Marina
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the plaintiff fails to prosecute, or comply with these rules or any court order, the court upon motion of a defendant or on its own motion may, after notice to the plaintiff's counsel, dismiss an action or claim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a basic tenet of Ohio jurisprudence that cases should be decided on their merits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Under these rules, there is no doubt that a trial court may, sua sponte, dismiss an action for non-appearance at a pre-trial conference. Cf. Pembaur v. Leis (1982), 1 Ohio St. 3d 89 . As an indispensable prerequisite to the dismissal, however, the plain language of Civ. R. 41 (B)(1) requires that plaintiff’s counsel be given notice of the intended dismissal.””
2 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.