93 Ohio App. 3d 192 - Clyborn v. Clyborn’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Brammer v. Brammer (2011), 144 Ohio App. 3d 279 - Wilburn v. Wilburn (2001)
57 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 Miller v. Miller · Ross v. Ross · 85 Ohio App. 3d 374 - Perz v. Perz
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but must ascertain from the record whether there is some competent evidence to sustain the findings of the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] trial court may not modify a prior decree allocating parental rights and responsibilities unless it first finds a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or his residential parent; and then, upon further inquiry , the court finds that the modification is in the child's best interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“trial court may not modify its prior decree allocating parental rights and responsibilities unless it first finds a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or his residential parent; and then, upon further inquiry, the court finds that the modification is in the child's best interests.”
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.