149 Ohio App. 3d 50 - Willis v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Myers v. Myers (2007), Abbott v. Virusso (2007)
43 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 Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Booth v. Booth · 65 Ohio St. 2d 10 - State ex rel. Ventrone v. Birkel · Pater v. Pater
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interviews of children conducted under R.C. 3109.051 are confidential and are not to be disclosed to the parents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Domestic relations judges typically use the in-camera interview to discuss a wide variety of issues, including any problems the child may be having with parents, step-parents, siblings, etc. In this way, the judge can identify areas of potential trouble, and may discover, inter alia, that the intervention of a social worker is necessary, or that a new hearing on visitation should be held. We believe that judges should be allowed to keep their private conversations with the children * * * confidential, as many times it is only this promise of confidentiality that convinces these embattled children to speak freely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o allow parents access to the transcript of their child's in camera interview defeats the statute's purpose to foster candor and also exposes the child to a parent's potentially hostile reaction to the child's words. It is in the best interest of a child, a child who has already been betrayed by the departure of one parent from his or her home, to be able to speak freely without concern of in turn betraying his or her parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re A.M.R.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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