77 Ohio App. 3d 749 - Brannon v. Rinzler’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 106 Ohio App. 3d 313 - Wall v. Firelands Radiology, Inc. (1995), 104 Ohio App. 3d 636 - Carlton v. Davission (1995)
2 federal appellate · 70 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 State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Securities v. Hawaii Market Center, Inc. · 41 Ohio App. 2d 165 - Ohio, Dept. of Public Welfare v. Licsak · 50 Ohio App. 2d 297 - State v. George · 254 So. 2d 493 - Hidalgo v. General Fire & Casualty Company · 55 Ohio App. 3d 63 - Kiel v. Circuit Design Technology, 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knowledge of the truth in regard to a particular fact or allegation, which is original, and does not depend on information or hearsay.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) an offeree furnishes initial value to an offeror; “(2) a portion of this initial value is subjected to the risks of the enterprise; “(3) the furnishing of the initial value is induced by the offeror’s promises of representations which give rise to a reasonable understanding that a valuable benefit of some kind, over and above the initial value, will accrue to the offeree as a result of the operation of the enterprise; and “(4) the offeree does not receive the right to exercise practical and actual control over the managerial decisions of the enterprise.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[i]n determining Ohio’s definition of a security, Ohio case law must be scrutinized, rather than case law interpreting other state or federal statutes.'”
1 later decision 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.