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← 15 OHIOST3D 289 - McClain v. McClain

McClain v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
1
states following
July 2016
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Knapp v. Knapp (1986), Mandelbaum v. Mandelbaum (2009)

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions

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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 Wolfe v. Wolfe · 1 Ohio App. 3d 146 - Alban v. Alban · 1 Ohio App. 3d 80 - Ashley v. Ashley

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A court of common pleas does not have jurisdiction to modify a provision for periodic sustenance alimony payments contained within a dissolution of marriage decree. (Wolfe v. Wolfe, 46 Ohio St. 2d 399 [ 75 O.O.2d 474 ], limited.)””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 26 Ohio App. 3d 201 - Merrill v. Merrill · Knapp v. Knapp
  2. ““* * * The court has full power to enforce its decree, and retains jurisdiction to modify all matters of custody, child support, visitation, and periodic alimony payments.” (Emphasis added.) (135 Ohio Laws, Part II, 603, 616.)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Knapp v. Knapp · Colley v. Colley
  3. “[a] court has no jurisdiction to grant a dissolution unless the parties have entered into a separation agreement either providing for alimony, or providing that none shall be paid.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re Means, Unpublished Decision (11-10-2005)

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.