85 Ohio App. 3d 644 - Bland v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 97 Ohio App. 3d 217 - Miller v. Paulson (1994), 136 Ohio App. 3d 281 - Berge v. Columbus Community Cable Access (1999)
53 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Strother v. Hutchinson · Ohio v. Hymore · Ruta v. Breckenridge-Remy Co. · Rohde v. Farmer
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abstain from interfering with the verdict unless it is quite clear that the jury has reached a seriously erroneous result.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Testamentary capacity exists when the testator has sufficient mind and memory: First, to understand the nature of the business in which he is engaged; second, to comprehend generally the nature and extent of his property; third, to hold in his mind the names and identity of those who have natural claims upon his bounty; fourth, to be able to appreciate his relation to the members of his family.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““Grounds. A new trial may be granted to all or any of the parties and on all or part of the issues upon any of the following grounds: “(4) Excessive or inadequate damages, appearing to have been given under the influence of passion or prejudice; “(5) Error in the amount of recovery, whether too large or too small, when the action is upon a contract or for the injury or detention of property; “(6) The judgment is not sustained by the weight of the evidence; however, only one new trial may be granted on the weight of the evidence in the same case; “(7) The judgment is contrary to law; “(9) Error of law occurring at the trial and brought to the attention of the trial court by the party making the application. “In addition to the above grounds, a new trial may also be granted in the sound discretion of the court for good cause shown.””
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.