135 Ohio App. 3d 176 - Jefferies v. Stanzak’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Smith v. Smith (2006), Schumann v. Schumann (2010)
28 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 · 24 Ohio App. 3d 77 - Gilford v. Wurster · 35 Ohio App. 3d 18 - Krause v. Krause
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The abuse of discretion standard is based upon the principle that a trial court must have the discretion in domestic relations matters to do what is equitable given the facts and circumstances of each case.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Blakemore v. Blakemore (1983), 5 Ohio St.3d 217 , 219 .”
3 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.