86 Ohio App. 3d 304 - In Re Whaley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 110 Ohio App. 3d 803 - Ham v. Park (1996), Williams v. Phelps (1998)
37 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Miller v. Miller · Booth v. Booth · In re Jane Doe 1
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `abuse of discretion' connotes more than an error of law or judgment; it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that it is in the best interest of the child for neither parent to be designated the residential parent and legal custodian of the child[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haynes v. Haynes
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.