51 Ohio App. 3d 148 - In Re Burchfield’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 77 Ohio App. 3d 1 - In Re Smith (1991), In Re Alexander C. (2005)
91 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Coy v. Iowa · Burr v. Board of County Commissioners
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he child does not first have to be put into a particular environment before a court can determine that * * * [the] environment is unhealthy or unsafe.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re N.J. · In re H.H.“the law does not require the court to experiment with the child's welfare to see if * * * [the child] will suffer great detriment or harm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hose condition or environment is such as to warrant the state, in the interests of the child, in assuming the child's guardianship.”
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.