Brooks v. Rollins’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2026
17 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 Sizemore v. Smith · 61 Ohio App. 2d 224 - Wilson v. Sinsabaugh · Rasmussen v. Vance
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the residence of a defendant is unknown, service shall be made by publication in actions where such service is authorized by law. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anson v. Tyree“tak[es] steps which an individual of ordinary prudence would reasonably expect to be successful in locating a defendant's address.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patrick v. Ellman“bring -7- Brown CA2021-04-004 in independent evidence to contradict the reasonable diligence of the plaintiff's search[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patrick v. Ellman
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.