98 Ohio App. 3d 597 - Doner v. Snapp’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 223 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 302 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Galmish v. Cicchini (2000), 127 Ohio App. 3d 1 - Nilavar v. Osborn (1998)
2 district · 223 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 Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. · 59 Ohio St. 3d 108 - Wing v. Anchor Media, Ltd. · Schulke Radio Productions, Ltd. v. Midwestern Broadcasting Co. · Charles R. Combs Trucking, Inc. v. International Harvester Co. · F. Enterprises, Inc. v. Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp.
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 302 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the existence of a contract, performance by the plaintiff, breach by the defendant, and damage or loss to the plaintiff.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘The appositeness of rendering a summary judgment hinges upon the tripartite demonstration: (1) that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact; (2) that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law; and (3) that reasonable minds can come to but one conclusion, and that conclusion is adverse to the party against whom the motion for summary judgment is made, who is entitled to have the evidence construed most strongly in his favor.’ ” Doner v. Snapp (1994), 98 Ohio App.3d 597, 600 , 649 N.E.2d 42, 43-44 , quoting Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. (1978), 54 Ohio St.2d 64, 66 , 8 O.O.3d 73, 74 , 375 N.E.2d 46, 47 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'To successfully prosecute a breach of contract claim, a plaintiff must present evidence of (1) the existence of a contract, (2) plaintiff's performance of the contract, (3) defendant's breach of the contract, and (4) plaintiff's loss or damage as a result of defendant's breach.'”
2 later decisions 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.