31 Ohio App. 2d 44 - Conkle v. Conkle’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably GenCorp, Inc. v. American International Underwriters (1999), 113 Ohio App. 3d 75 - Dorsey v. Contemporary Obstetrics & Gynecology, Inc. (1996)
8 federal appellate · 20 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 116 Ohio St. 668 - Albright v. Albright · 147 Ohio St. 49 - Flynn v. Bredbeck · Central Trust Co. v. Bovey
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * For all purposes under the laws of this state, including without limitation all laws and wills governing inheritance of and succession to real or personal property and the taxation of such inheritance and succession, a legally adopted child shall have the same status and rights, and shall bear the same legal relationship to the adopting parents as if born to them in lawful wedlock and not born to the natural parents; provided: “(A) Such adopted child shall not be capable of inheriting or succeeding to property expressly limited to heirs of the body of the adopting parent or parents * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““For all purposes under the laws of this state, includ-. ing without limitation all laws and wills governing inheritance o,f and succession to real and personal property and the taxation of such inheritance and succession, a legally adopted child shall have the same status and rights, and bear the same legal relationship to the adopting parents as if born to them in lawful wedlock and not born to the natura] parents * *”
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.