16 Ill. App. 3d 881 - Patton v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
March 1982
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nye v. Nye · 28 Ill. 2d 347 - Rodely v. Rodely · 39 Ill. 2d 76 - People Ex Rel. Bukovich v. Bukovich · Cohn v. Scott · 6 Ill. App. 3d 998 - Patton v. Armstrong
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court’s task in such cases is to reach a decision designed to protect the child’s best interests. (People ex rel. Morris v. Morris (1969), 44 Ill. 2d 66 , 254 N.E.2d 478 .) Once a custody determination has been made by the trial court, a court of review should not disturb it absent a showing of manifest injustice. (People v. Bukovich (1968), 39 Ill. 2d 76 , 233 N.E.2d 382 .)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abbott v. Abbott
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.