Harrold v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Delvallie (2022), Eppley v. Tri-Valley Local School District Board of Education (2009)
280 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 United States v. Salerno · Troxel v. Granville · Zivich v. Mentor Soccer Club, Inc. · Chavez v. Martinez · Arnold v. City of Cleveland
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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The] presumption that fit parents act in the best interest of their children * * * is [not] irrefutable. The trial court's analysis of the best interests of a child need not end once a parent has articulated his or her wishes. By stating in Troxel that a trial court must accord at least some special weight to the parent's wishes, the United States Supreme Court plurality did not declare that factor to be the sole determinant of the child's best interest. Moreover, nothing in Troxel suggests that a parent's wishes should be placed before a child's best interest.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ohio courts are obligated to afford some special weight to the wishes of parents of minor children when considering petitions for nonparental visitation.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“The fact that a statute might operate unconstitutionally under some plausible set of circumstances is insufficient to render it wholly invalid.”
9 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.