19 Ill. 2d 457 - Wick v. Wick’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 204 Ill. App. 3d 235 - Pavilon v. Kaferly (1990), 9 Ill. App. 3d 1071 - Storm v. Storm (1973)
25 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 344 Ill. App. 157 - Shuff v. Fulte · 351 Ill. App. 427 - Hurt v. Hurt · Mesirow v. Mesirow · Lindsay v. Lindsay · 104 Ohio App. 322 - Elkind v. Harding
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] party who refuses to obey the mandate of the court, and who has been adjudged in contempt for such refusal, is not entitled to prosecute or defend an action when the nature of the contempt is such as to hinder and embarrass the due course of procedure in the cause.” (Wick, 19 Ill. 2d at 459 , 167 N.E.2d at 209 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.