Johnson v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Grover v. Bartsch (2006), 158 Ohio App. 3d 110 - Cramer v. Archdiocese of Cincinnati (2004)
26 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 Bendix Autolite Corp. v. Midwesco Enterprises, Inc. · Wetzel v. Weyant
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“application of R.C. 2305.15 to an out-of-state corporation without an agent designated for service of process within the state of Ohio would subject the corporation to perpetual liability in lawsuits arising from their actions in the state of Ohio,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roy v. Grove“operates to preclude the application of R.C. 2305.15 against out-of-state corporations that have not appointed an agent for service of process in the state of Ohio,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roy v. Grove“for the reason that it constitutes an impermissible burden on interstate commerce under the holding of the United States Supreme Court in Bendix.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roy v. Grove
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.