Cramer v. Petrie’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State ex rel. Bitter v. Missig (1995), Rowell v. Smith (2012)
128 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 Harris v. Harris · 121 Ohio St. 393 - Belding v. State Ex Rel. Heifner · Carelli v. Howser · 120 Ohio St. 618 - Hatem v. State
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * an obligation to pay child support is not a ‘debt’ within the meaning of that term in Section 15, Article I of the Ohio Constitution. Because this obligation does not fall within the scope of Section 15, Article I, an order to pay child support may be enforced by means of imprisonment through contempt proceedings even after the child who is the subject of the order is emancipated.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The law surrounding contempt was created to uphold and ensure the effective administration of justice, secure the dignity of the court, and affirm the supremacy of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n obligation to pay child support arises by operation of law and is a personal duty owed to * * * the child, and society in general. It does not arise out of any business transaction or contractual agreement[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Z.M.
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.