State ex rel. Willacy v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State ex rel. Rootstown Local School District Board of Education v. Portage County Court of Common Pleas (1997), State ex rel. Mayer v. Henson (2002)
66 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 Mootispaw v. Eckstein · Goldstein v. Christiansen · State ex rel. Daggett v. Gessaman · State ex rel. Newton v. Court of Claims · State ex rel. Lewis v. Moser
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(B) The juvenile court has original jurisdiction under the Revised Code: * * * “(2) To determine the paternity of any child alleged to have been born out of wedlock pursuant to sections 3111.01 to 3111.19 of the Revised Code.””
1 later decision 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.