Rand v. Rand’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
225 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 132 Ohio App. 3d 616 - Bowen v. Bowen (1999), 125 Ohio App. 3d 600 - Zeffe v. Zeefe (1998)
225 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 · 46 Ohio App. 2d 157 - Majnaric v. Majnaric · Kinney v. Mathias · Blum v. Blum · 2 Ohio App. 3d 86 - Cheek v. Cheek
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well-established that an award of attorney fees is within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] trial court's discretion will not be overruled absent an attitude that is unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“requiring a parent to pay for a religious education does not violate the Establishment Clause; it is a permissible form of financial child support which is designed to partially reimburse the custodial parent for an expense she incurred in rearing their child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.