122 Ohio App. 3d 189 - Shank v. Shank’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2026
5 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 · Rock v. Cabral · 98 Ohio App. 3d 806 - Woloch v. Foster · 70 Ohio App. 3d 188 - Cole v. Cole · 102 Ohio App. 3d 50 - Baire v. Baire
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(A)(5) ‘Potential income’ means both of the following for a parent that the court, or a child support enforcement agency pursuant to sections 3111.20, 3111.211 and 3111.22 of the Revised Code, determines is voluntarily unemployed or voluntarily underemployed: “(a) Imputed income that the court or agency determines the parent would have earned if fully employed as determined from the parent’s employment potential and probable earnings based on the parent’s recent work history, the parent’s occupational qualifications, and the prevailing job opportunities and salary levels in the community in which the parent resides;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Income’ means either of the following: “(a) For a parent who is employed to full capacity, the gross income of the parent; “(b) For a parent who is unemployed or underemployed, the sum of the gross income of the parent, and any potential income of the parent.””
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.