44 Ohio App. 2d 5 - Darling v. Darling’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably McPeek v. McCardle (2008), 361 So. 2d 582 - Broadus v. Broadus (1978)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Flaxman v. Flaxman · 117 Ohio St. 136 - Johnson v. Wolford · 90 Ohio App. 369 - Williams v. Williams · Smith v. Smith
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a void marriage is invalid from its inception, and the parties thereto may simply separate without benefit of a court order of divorce or annulment.”
3 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.