Leber v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Galmish v. Cicchini (2000), GenCorp, Inc. v. American International Underwriters (1999)
10 federal appellate · 88 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 Inland Refuse Transfer Co. v. Browning-Ferris Industries of Ohio, Inc. · Schade v. Carnegie Body Co. · Karabin v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance · Erie Insurance Group v. Fisher · Miller v. Marrocco
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation of an insurance contract involves a question of law to be decided by a judge”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Because the court of appeals erred in the ways discussed in this opinion, we reverse the judgment of the court of appeals, in part, and reinstate all of the trial court’s judgments. The findings of the jury should not be disturbed.” Leber, 70 Ohio St.3d at 554, 639 N.E.2d at 1163.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When the language of an insurance policy has a plain and ordinary meaning, it is unnecessary and impermissible for [a] court to resort to construction of that language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.