Boyer v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 52 Ohio St. 2d 89 - Perales v. Nino (1977), City of Cuyahoga Falls v. Bowers (1984)
1 federal appellate · 52 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 Morrison v. Steiner · Krause v. State · State ex rel. Portage County Welfare Dept. v. Summers · State v. Hughes
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(B) The supreme court shall prescribe rules governing practice and procedure in all courts of the state, which rules shall not abridge, enlarge, or modify any substantive right. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * If the court finds, with respect to any child under eighteen years of age, that custody to neither parent is in the best interest of the child, it may commit the child to a relative of the child or certify a copy of its findings, together with so much of the record and the further information, in narrative form or otherwise, as it deems necessary or as the juvenile court requests, to the juvenile court for further proceedings, and thereupon the juvenile court shall have exclusive jurisdiction.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where conflicts arise between the Civil Rules and the statutory law, the rule will control the statute on matters of procedure and the statute will control the rule on matters of substantive law.”
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.