26 Ill. App. 2d 16 - Frank v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
November 1979
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nye v. Nye · 10 Ill. 2d 269 - Cooper v. Hinrichs · 345 Ill. App. 170 - Wade v. Wade · 14 Ill. App. 2d 242 - Dunning v. Dunning · 339 Ill. App. 484 - Maupin v. Maupin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implicit in the modification order changing custody from the father to the mother, is a finding that there were changed conditions since the divorce decree, and that in the light of the changed conditions, the best interests of the child were being served in entering the order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The guiding star is and must be, at all times, the best interest of the child.”
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.