18 Ohio App. 3d 95 - In Re Yates’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2014
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"*** When the mother of an illegitimate child has reared the child from birth for a substantial period of time without the father living with her or the child, she has sole legal custody of the child which cannot be changed without proof of circumstances that would permit a change of custody granted by a prior decree. Initial custody has been determined by action of the parties to be vested in the mother without necessity for declaration by a court ***."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knaff v. Gregory
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.