25 Ohio App. 2d 50 - State v. Ducey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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

1. ““A decree in a divorce action, ordering the payment of money for the support of a minor child, is not a judgment for the payment of money nor is it a debt within the constitutional inhibition against imprisonment for debt, but is in the nature of an order for the payment of alimony, and contempt will lie for wilful failure to comply with its terms.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Ohio App. 3d 39 - Bauer v. Bauer · State v. Collins

2. ““It is reasonable and proper for members of the public at large to assume that if another member of society desires to increase the population by the addition of his progeny, he full well intends to assume the burdens attendant therewith. “It is also reasonable for the state to provide for certain measures which exact penalties and sanctions for those who do not see fit to meet the attendant responsibilities of [their] progeny.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Ohio App. 3d 39 - Bauer v. Bauer

3. ““Imprisonment imposed for a violation of R.C. 2151.42, making it an offense for a person charged with the care, support, maintenance, or education of a child to fail to do so, is not imprisonment for debt and, therefore, R.C. 2151.42 and R.C. 2151.99 are not in violation of Section 15, Article I, * * *.” Id., paragraph one of the syllabus.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 4 Ohio App. 3d 291 - State v. Wright