80 Ohio App. 3d 751 - Strawser v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2012
2 district · 15 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. · Paugh v. Hanks · Schultz v. Barberton Glass Co. · High v. Howard · 36 Ohio App. 3d 62 - Taylor v. Yale & Towne Manufacturing 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We sympathize with one who must endure the sense of loss which may accompany the death of a pet; however, we cannot ignore the law. * * * Ohio law simply does not permit recovery for serious emotional distress which is caused when one witnesses the negligent injury or destruction of one's property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of statutory provision therefor, Ohio courts have limited recovery for negligent infliction of emotional distress to such instances as where one was a bystander to an accident or was in fear of physical consequences to his own person.”
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.