McCroskey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Ed Schory & Sons, Inc. v. Francis (1996), 87 Ohio App. 3d 613 - McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Haiman Co. v. First Union Management, Inc. (1993)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 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 Talley v. Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, & Helpers, Local No. 377
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee ... and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The issue presented by this case is whether the state of Ohio is obliged under the doctrine of promissory estoppel to compensate Dewey A. McCroskey for his efforts in attempting to arrange the constructionand lease of office space to the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. First, Inc.
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.