118 Ohio App. 3d 731 - Mottice v. Mottice’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 132 Ohio App. 3d 616 - Bowen v. Bowen (1999), Burkart v. Burkart (2010)
45 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 · Booth v. Booth · Kunkle v. Kunkle · Kaechele v. Kaechele · Wolfe v. Wolfe
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the finding as to whether there has been a change in circumstances that, ultimately, warrants a modification or termination will not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“THE JUDGMENT OF THE TRIAL COURT WHICH OVERRULED APPELLANT'S MOTION TO TERMINATE HIS SPOUSAL SUPPORT OBLIGATION IS AGAINST THE MANIFEST WEIGHT OF THE EVIDENCE.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to merit any adjustment, the requisite change in the [parties'] economic situation must be of such a degree as to be described `drastic.'”
1 later decision 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.