In re James’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Fisher v. Hasenjager (2007), Kougher v. Kougher (2011)
138 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 Santosky v. Kramer · Davis v. Flickinger · In re Murray · 52 Ohio St. 2d 89 - Perales v. Nino · In re Adoption of Ridenour
Most-quoted passages
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“whether a trial court, when modifying a prior decree allocating parental rights and responsibilities for the care of children, should consider only whether the modification is necessary to serve the best interest of the child, or whether the trial court has an obligation to adhere to the conjunctive statutory requirements to find both a change in the circumstances of the child, the residential parent, or either of the parents subject to a shared-parenting decree, and that the modification is necessary to serve the best interest of the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. Wade · In re A.M.“The statute allows a court to modify a prior decree allocating parental rights and responsibilities only if (1) 'a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child, the child's residential parent, or either of the parents subject to a shared parenting decree' and (2) the modification is in the best interest of the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re A.G. · In re A.M.“R.C. 3109.04(E)(1)(a) precludes a trial court from modifying a prior decree allocating parental rights and responsibilities unless it finds, based on facts that have arisen since the time of the decree or were unknown to it at that time, not only that a change has occurred in circumstances of the child, the child's residential parent, or either parent subject to a shared-parenting decree, but also that the modification of the prior custody decree is necessary to serve the best interest of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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