36 Ohio App. 3d 123 - In Re Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 86 Ohio App. 3d 716 - In Re Hiatt (1993), 51 Ohio App. 3d 148 - In Re Burchfield (1988)
154 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 New Jersey Division of Youth & Family Services v. A.W. · Custody of a Minor · 70 Ohio App. 2d 117 - In Re Bibb · In re East · In the Interest of J.A.J.
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`* * * [A] child should not have to endure the inevitable to its great detriment and harm in order to give the * * * [parent] an opportunity to prove her suitability. To anticipate the future, however, is at most, a difficult basis for a judicial determination. The child's present condition and environment is the subject for decision not the expected or anticipated behavior of unsuitability or unfitness of the * * * [parent]. * * * The law does not require the court to experiment with the child's welfare to see if he will suffer great detriment or harm.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“condition or environment is such as to warrant the state, in the interests of the child, in assuming the child's guardianship.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`A juvenile court should not be forced to experiment with the health and safety of a newborn baby where the state can show, by clear and convincing evidence, that placing the child in such an environment would be threatening to the health and safety of that child.'”
2 later decisions 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.