9 Ohio App. 3d 297 - Lance v. Leohr’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Villella v. Waikem Motors, Inc. (1989), 41 Ohio App. 3d 28 - Cox v. Oliver MacHinery Co. (1987)
38 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 120 Ohio St. 273 - Chester Park Co. v. Schulte · 155 Ohio St. 207 - Larrissey v. Norwalk Truck Lines, 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]efore a reviewing court will disturb the exercise of the trial court's discretion, the record must clearly demonstrate highly improper argument by counsel which tends to inflame the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a trial court considers a verdict to be so excessive as to have been rendered under the influence of passion or prejudice, the verdict should be set aside and a new trial granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`so highly improper or inflammatory as to amount to clear evidence that the verdict was the product of the jury's passion or prejudice.'”
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.