Sazima v. Chalko’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Hillabrand v. Drypers Corp. (2000), 142 Ohio App. 3d 725 - Gilbert v. Wnir 100 Fm (2001)
121 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · GTE Automatic Electric, Inc. v. ARC Industries, Inc. · Tokles & Son, Inc. v. Midwestern Indemnity Co. · Quonset Hut, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. · Moore v. Emmanuel Family Training Center, Inc.
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he extremely harsh sanction of dismissal should be reserved for cases when [a party's] conduct falls substantially below what is reasonable under the circumstances evidencing a complete disregard for the judicial system or the rights of the opposing party. In other words, dismissal is reserved for those cases in which the conduct of a party is so negligent, irresponsible, contumacious or dilatory as to provide substantial grounds for a dismissal with prejudice for a failure to prosecute or obey a court order. Absent such extreme circumstances, a court should first consider lesser sanctions before dismissing a case with prejudice. It is a basic tenet of Ohio jurisprudence that cases should be decided on their merits. Thus, although reviewing courts espouse an ordinary abuse of discretion standard of review for dismissals with prejudice, that standard is actually heightened when reviewing decisions that forever deny a plaintiff a review of a claim's merits.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“when counsel has been informed that dismissal is a possibility and has had a reasonable opportunity to defend against dismissal.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of notice is to give the party who is in jeopardy of having his or her action or claim dismissed one last chance to comply with the order or to explain the default.”
4 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.