Ross v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Miller v. Miller (1988), Karches v. City of Cincinnati (1988)
214 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 C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Baxter v. Baxter · 137 Ohio St. 337 - State Ex Rel. Kobelt v. Baker · 27 Ohio St. 2d 175 - Palladino v. Palladino · 112 Ohio St. 24 - Katz v. American Finance Co.
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a custody determination, an appellate court must 'review the record to determine whether there is any evidence in support of the prevailing party.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[j]udgments supported by some competent, credible evidence going to all the essential elements of the case will not be reversed by a reviewing court as being against the manifest weight of the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court shall not modify a prior decree allocating parental rights and responsibilities * * * unless it finds, based on facts that have arisen since the prior decree or that were unknown to the court at the time of the prior decree, that a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child, his residential parent, * * * and that the modification is necessary to serve the best interest of the child. In applying these standards, the court shall retain the residential parent designated by the prior decree * * *, unless a modification is in the best interest of the child and one of the following applies: "* * * “(iii) The harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is outweighed by the advantages of the change of environment to the child.””
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.