Loetz v. Loetz’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably In re Poling (1992), 83 Ohio App. 3d 757 - Holm v. Smilowitz (1992)
61 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 Lessee of Barton v. Heirs of Morris · 123 Ohio St. 76 - Corbett v. Corbett
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court in which a decree of divorce is originally rendered retains continuing jurisdiction over matters relating to the custody, care, and support of the minor children of the parties.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the minor children of the marriage to one of the parties, a probate court, while such decree remains in force, can not, as between the parties to the decree, legally interfere with the custody so decreed, either by habeas corpus or letters of guardianship.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Where a court of common pleas, on rendering a decree of divorce, further decrees the "custody, care and control”
1 later decision 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.