74 Ohio App. 3d 36 - Volter v. C. Schmidt Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2013
13 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 Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Mussivand v. David · Bostic v. Connor · Williams v. First United Church of Christ · Cascone v. Herb Kay Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Given our analysis of the Supreme Court of Ohio’s reasoning in R.H. Macy & Co., supra, however, we do not believe that evidence of the employer’s OSHA violations can be excluded from a factfinder’s consideration of proximate cause and whether the employer’s omissions ‘completely’ eliminated the effect of any defect in the machine produced by Cincinnati, Inc. * * * ” Id., 74 Ohio App.3d at 42 , 598 N.E.2d at 39 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In a products liability case based upon the theory of strict liability in tort, the defense of intervening causation may be invoked to avoid liability where the intervening cause is unforeseeable and is the proximate cause of the injury or damage. Liability attaches to the person or persons whose acts or omissions proximately cause the injury or damage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are aware of no Ohio precedent establishing, as a rule of law, that an employer's OSHA violation for failure to equip a machine with safety devices relieves a manufacturer of strict liability”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.