70 Ohio App. 3d 188 - Cole v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 98 Ohio App. 3d 806 - Woloch v. Foster (1994), 113 Ohio App. 3d 552 - Richardson v. Ballard (1996)
53 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Ohler v. Ohler · Noddin v. Noddin · 378 Pa. Super. 613 - Leasure v. Leasure · In Re the Marriage of Vetternack
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the reasoning behind those decisions remains: the parent should not be excused from his child support obligations because of a willful act that resulted in imprisonment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the incarcerated parent] could and should be treated as any other noncustodial parent liable for any money owed on his child support obligation. [The parent's] inability to pay arose from circumstances which he could have reasonably anticipated. There are no guaranties of probation or other forms of disposition when convicted of a criminal offense. It is not "state action" which reduced his income, but his own willful acts. Thus, we find that incarceration, standing alone, does not warrant a finding of change of circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nor does [the order] violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.... No fundamental right is affected, nor is a suspect class created by the imposition of this obligation. The obligation is rationally related to the state’s legitimate interest to insure that children will receive the support to which they are entitled.”
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.