233 Ill. App. 488 - Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1978
17 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 Cole v. Cole · Craig v. Craig · Stillman v. Stillman · Jenkins v. Jenkins · Umlauf v. Umlauf
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no doubt but that the same rule should apply where the custody of a child is involved unless it is made to appear that it would be for the best interests of the child to give it to another.””
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.