Braatz v. Braatz’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
217 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Fisher v. Hasenjager (2007), 147 Ohio App. 3d 513 - Anderson v. Anderson (2002)
217 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 Davis v. Flickinger · Booth v. Booth · 3 Ohio App. 3d 412 - Wyss v. Wyss · In re Whitaker · In re Gibson
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ursuant to R.C. 3109.051 (D), the trial court shall consider the fifteen factors enumerated therein, and in its sound discretion shall determine visitation that is in the best interest of the child.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“modification of visitation rights is governed by R.C. 3109.051, and * * * the specific rules for determining when a court may modify a custody decree as set forth in R.C. 3109.04 are not equally applicable to modification of visitation rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re: F.B. · A.R.C. v. D.J.S.“'resides in the party or parties who have the right to ultimate legal and physical control of a child.'”
4 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.