86 Ohio App. 3d 716 - In Re Hiatt’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 120 Ohio App. 3d 88 - In Re Hitchcock (1996), 149 Ohio App. 3d 717 - In Re Baby Girl Doe (2002)
104 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 Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · In re Murray · In re Jane Doe 1 · In re Cunningham · 77 Ohio App. 3d 1 - In Re Smith
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he measure or degree of proof that will produce in the mind of the trier of fact a firm belief or conviction as to the allegations sought to be established. It is intermediate, being more than a mere preponderance, but not to the extent of such certainty as required beyond a reasonable doubt as in criminal cases. It does not mean clear and unequivocal.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n appealing party may complain of an error committed against a non-appealing party when the error is prejudicial to the rights of the appellant.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the legal custody of a suitable member of the child's extended family[.]”
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.