83 Ohio App. 3d 17 - Lepera v. Fuson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Greenberg v. The Life Insurance Company of Virginia (1999), 97 Ohio App. 3d 228 - Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Triskett Illinois, Inc. (1994)
6 federal appellate · 37 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. · Mussivand v. David · Gaines v. Preterm-Cleveland, Inc. · Layman v. Binns · Miles v. Perpetual Savings & Loan 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]eliance is justifiable if the representation does not appear unreasonable on its face and if there is no apparent reason to doubt the veracity of the representation under the circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) a false representation concerning a fact or, in the face of a duty to disclose, concealment of a fact, material to the transaction; (2) knowledge of the falsity of the representation or utter disregard for its truthfulness; (3) intent to induce reliance on the representation; (4) justifiable reliance upon the representation under circumstances manifesting a right to rely; and (5) injury proximately caused by the reliance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he question of justifiable reliance is one of fact and requires an inquiry into the relationship between the parties.”
2 later decisions 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.