6 Ohio App. 3d 17 - Zaperach v. Beaver’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2026
2 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 Franklin v. Julian · Hall v. Rosen · Romweber 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only if there is an express adjudication of an issue by the court in the original action, whether by default or trial, can the judgment be utilized as establishing a matter as between the parties. [Emphasis supplied]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no change of position on the part of the [obligor] to his own detriment as a result of the inaction of [the obligee]. Rather, [the obligor] has benefitted from the delay by not being required to pay support over a number of years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for nine years does not confer upon him a right to continue to fail *** .”
1 later decision 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.