In re Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
632 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 632 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably In re C.F. (2007), 171 Ohio App. 3d 248 - In Re J.W. (2007)
632 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.
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 632 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The interaction and interrelationship of the child with the child's parents, siblings, relatives, foster caregivers and out-of-home providers, and any other person who may significantly affect the child;”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here is not one element that is given greater weight than the others pursuant to the statute.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court shall enter a finding that the child cannot be placed with either parent within a reasonable time or should not be placed with either parent.”
17 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.