84 Ohio App. 3d 65 - Painter v. Graley’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2021
12 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers · Clements v. Fashing · Greeley v. Miami Valley Maintenance Contractors, Inc. · Fawcett v. G. C. Murphy & 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of the right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Painter v. Graley“All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for their equal protection and benefit, and they have the right to alter, reform, or abolish the same, whenever they may deem it necessary; and no special privileges or immunities shall ever be granted, that may not be altered, revoked, or repealed by the general assembly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Painter v. Graley“seek political office in the city of Cleveland.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Painter v. Graley
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.