123 Ohio App. 3d 448 - In Re Sappington’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 160 Ohio App. 3d 159 - In Re Slider (2005), 140 Ohio App. 3d 402 - In Re Spradlin (2000)
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 77 Ohio App. 3d 80 - In Re Adoption of Howell · 106 Ohio App. 3d 38 - In Re Johnson · 61 Ohio App. 3d 763 - In Re Nation · 54 Ohio App. 2d 137 - In Re Christopher · 76 Ohio App. 3d 514 - Lovejoy v. Cuyahoga County Department of Human Services
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.
“{¶ 14} “The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to protect the interest of a child in any proceeding concerning an alleged or adjudicated delinquent child or unruly child when either of the following applies: {¶ 15} “(1) The child has no parent, guardian, or legal custodian. {¶ 16} “(2) The court finds that there is a conflict between the child and the child’s parent, guardian, or legal custodian.” {¶ 17} Likewise Juv.R. 4(B) states: {¶ 18} “The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to protect the interests of a child or incompetent adult in a juvenile court proceeding when: {¶ 19} “ * * * {¶20} “(2) The interests of the child and the interests of the parent may conflict.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he juvenile court is in the best position to weigh the relevant facts in determining whether a potential conflict of interest exists between the parent and the child.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stanford · State v. Brown“(2) The interests of the child and the interests of the parent may conflict.”
6 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.