In re C.F.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 575 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 576 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably In re Adams (2007), State ex rel. Allen Cty. Children Servs. Bd. v. Mercer Cty. Common Pleas Court, Probate Div. (Slip Opinion) (2016)
1 federal appellate · 575 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Troxel v. Granville · In re Hayes · In re William S. · In re Schaefer
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 576 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the agency has not established that reasonable efforts have been made prior to the hearing on a motion for permanent custody, then it must demonstrate such efforts at that time.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he wishes of the child, as expressed directly by the child or through the child's guardian ad litem, with due regard for the maturity of the child.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[w]hether a reasonable efforts determination is required in motions for permanent custody filed pursuant to R.C. 2151.413.'”
13 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.