Blakemore v. Blakemore’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16,591 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16,602 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Maurer (1984), Miller v. Miller (1988)
16,591 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 State v. Adams · Cherry v. Cherry · Berish v. Berish · Wolfe v. Wolfe · 137 Ohio St. 448 - Steiner v. Custer
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · State v. Adams · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 16,602 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `abuse of discretion' connotes more than an error of law or judgment; it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
1,109 later decisions quote this exact passage“(C)(1) Except as provided in this division or division (E)(1) of this section, the division of marital property shall be equal. If an equal division of marital property would be inequitable, the court shall not divide the marital property equally but instead shall divide it between the spouses in the manner the court determines equitable. In making a division of marital property, the court shall consider all relevant factors, including those set forth in division (F) of this section.”
82 later decisions quote this exact passage“When applying the abuse of discretion standard, a reviewing court is not free to merely substitute its judgment for that of the trial court.”
57 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.