24 Ill. App. 2d 32 - Maitzen v. Maitzen’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 71 Ill. 2d 563 - Kujawinski v. Kujawinski (1978), 550 So. 2d 986 - Ex Parte Bayliss (1989)
26 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 13 Ill. App. 2d 354 - Strom v. Strom · Underwood v. Underwood · 1 Ill. 2d 409 - People Ex Rel. Spiegel v. Lyons · 15 Ill. App. 2d 369 - Rust v. Holland · 244 Ill. App. 166 - Freestate v. Freestate
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a normal household, parents ... direct their children as to when and how they should work or study. That is on the assumption of a normal family relationship, where parental love and moral obligation dictate what is best for the children. Under such circumstances, natural pride in the attainments of a child ... would demand of parents provision for a college education, even at a sacrifice. When we turn to divorced parents — a disrupted family — society cannot count on normal protection for the child, and it is here that equity takes control to mitigate the hardship that may befall children of divorced parents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The public policy of this state, that a college education be given children whenever possible, is evidenced by the many institutions of higher education maintained by the state_ A divorced parent should not ... expect his children to rely on the bounty of others when he has ample means to provide for them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nash v. Mulle
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.