In re Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Simmons-Harris v. Goff (1999), In Re Z.R. (2015)
65 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 Dorrian v. Scioto Conservancy District · State ex rel. Levin v. City of Sheffield Lake · State ex rel. Dehler v. Sutula · 77 Ohio St. 3d 64 - State ex rel. Miley v. Parrott · 146 Ohio St. 467 - State Ex Rel. Jones v. Farrar
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, a statute which provides a time for the performance of an official duty will be construed as directory so far as time for performance is concerned, especially where the statute fixes the time simply for convenience or orderly procedure.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A petition for a writ of procedendo `is appropriate when a court has either refused to render a judgment or has unnecessarily delayed proceeding to judgment.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““If there were jurisdictional consequences, a missed deadline would require either that the child be returned to a potentially risky home situation, or that a new complaint be filed and the process begun anew, delaying the final resolution of the issue even further. Such consequences would not serve the interests of children, who are too often relegated to temporary custody for too long.””
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.