98 Ohio App. 3d 189 - In Re Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably In Re Z.R. (2015), 176 Ohio App. 3d 186 - In Re J.L. (2008)
53 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 In re Adoption of Holcomb · 58 Ohio St. 3d 121 - Cincinnati Bar Ass'n v. Massengale · In re Poling · In re Adoption of Lay · 12 Ohio App. 3d 138 - Squires v. Squires
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clear and convincing evidence is more than a preponderance of the evidence but not as much evidence as required to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt as in a criminal case; rather, it is evidence which provides the trier of fact with a firm belief or conviction as to the facts sought to be established.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re J.E. · In re L.M.“(1) The interaction and interrelationship of the child with the child's parents, siblings, relatives, foster caregivers and out-of-home *Page 8 providers, and any other person who may significantly affect the child; (2) The wishes of the child, as expressed directly by the child or through the child's guardian ad litem, with due regard for the maturity of the child; (3) The custodial history of the child, including whether the child has been in the temporary custody of one or more public children services agencies or private child placing agencies for twelve or more months of a consecutive twenty-two month period ending on or after March 18, 1999; (4) The child's need for a legally secure permanent placement and whether that type of placement can be achieved without a grant of permanent custody to the agency; (5) Whether any of the factors in divisions (E)(7) to (11) of this section apply in relation to the parents and child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must examine the record and determine if the trier of fact had sufficient evidence before it to satisfy this burden of proof.”
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.