Davis v. Flickinger’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2,183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,185 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Fisher v. Hasenjager (2007), 141 Ohio App. 3d 445 - In the Matter of Nice (2001)
2,183 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 Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Miller v. Miller · Bechtol v. Bechtol · 3 Ohio App. 3d 412 - Wyss v. Wyss
Cited together with Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · Blakemore v. Blakemore · Miller v. Miller · State v. Thompkins · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction 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 2,185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the best opportunity to view the demeanor, attitude, and credibility of each witness, something that does not translate well on the written page.”
294 later decisions quote this exact passage“(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.”
80 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be a change of substance, not a slight or inconsequential change.”
60 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.