79 Ohio App. 3d 59 - In Re Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 106 Ohio App. 3d 196 - Takacs v. Baldwin (1995), 99 Ohio App. 3d 492 - In Re Egbert Children (1994)
120 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.
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * an honest, purposeful effort, free of malice and the design to defraud or to seek an unconscionable advantage.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The child is not abandoned or orphaned or has not been in the temporary custody of one or more public children services agencies or private child placing agencies for twelve or more months of a consecutive twenty-two month period ending on or after March 18, 1999, and the child cannot be placed with either of the child's parents within a reasonable time or should not be placed with the child's parents. {¶ 29} "(b) The child is abandoned. {¶ 30} "(c) The child is orphaned, and there are no relatives of the child who are able to take permanent custody. {¶ 31} "(d) The child has been in the temporary custody of one or more public children services agencies or private child placing agencies for twelve or more months of a consecutive twenty-two month period ending on or after March 18, 1999.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“good faith effort to implement a reunification plan means an honest, purposeful effort, free of malice and the design to defraud or to seek an unconscionable advantage. * * * A lack of good faith effort is defined as importing a dishonest purpose, conscious wrongdoing or breach of a known duty based on some ulterior motive or ill will in the nature of fraud.”
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.