77 Ohio App. 3d 17 - Spivey v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State ex rel. Goldberg v. Mahoning County Probate Court (2001), 82 Ohio App. 3d 255 - Henry Filters, Inc. v. Peabody Barnes, Inc. (1992)
68 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 Shinaver v. Szymanski · 113 F. Supp. 265 - T. C. Theatre Corp. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Royal Indemnity Co. v. J. C. Penney Co. · Trone v. Smith · Cinema 5, Ltd. v. Cinerama, Inc.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Disqualification, therefore, `should ordinarily be granted only *Page 7 when a violation of the Canons of the Code of Professional Responsibility poses a significant risk of trial taint'.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a drastic measure which should not be imposed unless absolutely necessary”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court abused its discretion in disqualifying counsel based upon the apparent conflict of interest.”
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.