98 Ohio App. 3d 839 - Mobberly v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 176 Ohio App. 3d 401 - Thomas v. City of Cleveland (2008), 120 Ohio App. 3d 192 - Doyle v. Fairfield Machine Co., Inc. (1997)
73 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 State v. Jenkins · Huffman v. Hair Surgeon, Inc. · Posin v. A. B. C. Motor Court Hotel, Inc. · 38 Ohio St. 3d 385 - Omni-Food & Fashion, Inc. v. Smith · 4 Ohio App. 3d 89 - Muir v. Hadler Real Estate Management Co.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`An abuse of discretion involves far more than a difference in opinion. The term discretion itself involves the idea of choice, of an exercise of will, of a determination, made between competing considerations. In order to have an `abuse' in reaching such determination, the result must be so palpably and grossly violative of fact and logic that it evidences not the exercise of will but the perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment but the defiance thereof, not the exercise of reason but rather of passion or bias.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Interest on a judgment, decree, or order for the payment of money rendered in a civil action based on tortious conduct and not settled by agreement of the parties, shall be computed from the date the cause of action accrued to the date on which the money is paid, if, upon motion of any party to the action, the court determines at a hearing held subsequent to the verdict or decision in the action that the party required to pay the money failed to make a good faith effort to settle the case and that the party to whom the money is to be paid did not fail to make a good faith effort to settle the case.” 139 Ohio Laws, Part I, 2035.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining when the attorney-client relationship is terminated, the court must point to an affirmative act by either the attorney or the client that signals the end of the relationship. Mastran v. Marks (Mar. 28, 1990), Summit App. No. 14270, unreported, 1990 WL 34845. For a trial court to take this issue away from a jury, such an act must be clear and unambiguous. Id.”
3 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.