113 Ohio App. 3d 552 - Richardson v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State ex rel. Department of Human Services ex rel. Jones v. Baggett (1999), Yerkes v. Yerkes (2003)
29 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 70 Ohio App. 3d 188 - Cole v. Cole · 69 Ohio App. 3d 275 - Peters v. Peters · 91 Ohio App. 3d 689 - Brockmeier v. Brockmeier
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A parent cannot, by intentional conduct or mere irresponsibility, seek relief from this duty of support. Defendant, who by his own wrongful conduct placed himself in a position that he is no longer available for gainful employment, is not entitled to relief from his obligation to support his child. Incarceration was a foreseeable result of his criminal conduct and is thus deemed a voluntary act in and of itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“now agree[s] with the reasoning of other Ohio courts which have found incarceration due to criminal conduct to be voluntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Children should not be made to suffer financial hardship because of their parent's wrongdoing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.