Williamson v. Ameritech Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 136 Ohio App. 3d 468 - Amerifirst Savings Bank of Xenia v. Krug (1999), Cave v. Conrad (2002)
41 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 64 Ohio St. 3d 552 - Vance v. Roedersheimer · Centennial Insurance v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Benda v. Fana · In re Election of November 6, 1990 for the Office of Attorney General
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Costs are generally defined as the statutory fees to which officers, witnesses, jurors and others are entitled for their services in an action and which the statutes authorize to be taxed and included in the judgment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The subject of costs is one entirely of statutory allowance and control.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The person taking and certifying a deposition may retain the deposition until the fees and expenses that he charged are paid. He also shall tax the costs, if any, of a sheriff or other officer who serves any process in connection with the taking of a deposition and the fees of the witnesses, and, if directed by a person entitled to those costs or fees, may retain the deposition until those costs or fees are paid.”
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.