33 Ohio App. 3d 214 - Leighner v. Leighner’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Mandelbaum v. Mandelbaum (2009), 111 Ohio App. 3d 703 - Tremaine v. Tremaine (1996)
72 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 · 8 Ohio App. 3d 286 - Haninger v. Haninger · 9 Ohio App. 3d 191 - Bingham v. Bingham · 2 Ohio App. 3d 421 - Bright v. Collins
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether or not the existing order should be modified.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * [OJrdinarily, the alimony recipient will not be entitled to share in the increased earnings of the alimony obligor, except to the extent that these increased earnings now enable the obligor to pay a share which will support a reasonable predivorce standard of living for the alimony recipient. * * *" Leighner v. Leighner (1986), 33 Ohio App. 3d 214 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]his latter inquiry involves re-examination of the existing order in the light of the changed circumstances, and requires a two-step determination: First, is * * * alimony still necessary? And, if so, what amount is reasonable?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.