In re Burrell’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 98 Ohio App. 3d 337 - In Re Brown (1994), 70 Ohio App. 2d 117 - In Re Bibb (1980)
126 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.
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That impact cannot be simply inferred in general, but must be specifically demonstrated in a clear and convincing manner.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hose condition or environment is such as to warrant the state, in the interests of the child, in assuming the child's guardianship.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the absence of evidence showing a detrimental impact upon the child of the relationship established as here existing, that relationship, as a part of the child’s environment, does not warrant the state in removing the child from parental custody in the best interest of that child. # * *J>”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.