83 Ohio App. 3d 398 - Smith v. John Deere Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Jacobson v. Kaforey (Slip Opinion) (2016), Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Ryan (2010)
7 federal appellate · 43 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 Preston v. Murty · Ruta v. Breckenridge-Remy Co. · O'Day v. Webb · Morris v. First National Bank & Trust Co. · 65 Ohio App. 2d 70 - State v. Herder
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n essential element of *** assault is that the actor knew with substantial certainty that his or her act would bring about harmful or offensive contact.”
9 later decisions 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.