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← 94 Ohio App. 3d 382 - Elling v. Graves

94 Ohio App. 3d 382 - Elling v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
November 2007
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. · Mitseff v. Wheeler · Norris v. Ohio Standard Oil Co. · Willitzer v. McCloud

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Ohio courts have long recognized that freedom of speech is essential in a judicial proceeding in order to ascertain the truth and to achieve justice. To assure that all participants in a judicial proceeding feel free to testify, question and act, Ohio courts *Page 9 prohibit civil actions based on statements made by parties and witnesses during the course of and relevant to judicial proceedings.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “This ban on civil liability for false statements applies even in cases where the party testifying knew his statements were false.”
    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.