77 Ohio App. 3d 1 - In Re Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
643 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 643 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably In re Hayes (1997), In Re B.C. (2014)
643 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. · In re Baby Girl Baxter · Kilbreath v. Rudy · 51 Ohio App. 3d 148 - In Re Burchfield
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 643 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be afforded every procedural and substantive protection the law allows.”
96 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n appealing party may complain of an error committed against a non-appealing party when the error is prejudicial to the rights of the appellant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rights to conceive and to raise one's children have been deemed 'essential, * * * basic civil rights of man,' * * * and”
2 later decisions 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.