97 Ohio App. 3d 59 - Evans v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Logsdon v. Hains (2007), 105 Ohio App. 3d 728 - Mayes v. City of Columbus (1995)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Baker v. McCollan · West v. Atkins · Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Michigan v. · Burdeau v. McDowell
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim for false arrest is indistinguishable from a claim for false imprisonment in its essential elements-each claim requires proof that one was intentionally confined within a limited area, for any appreciable time, against his will and without lawful justification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a false arrest, [a] false imprisonment exists, but the detention is by reason of an asserted legal authority to enforce the processes of the law; in a false imprisonment, the detention is purely a matter between private persons for a private end, and there is no intention of bringing the person detained before a court, or of otherwise securing the administration of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.