362 Ill. App. 3d 331 - Helm v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In re Marriage of Betts · 199 Ill. 2d 460 - People v. Lindsey · 232 Ill. App. 3d 806 - In Re Marriage of Carpel · 203 Ill. App. 3d 606 - Alltop v. Alltop · 304 Ill. App. 3d 108 - Pancotto v. Mayes
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“` Civil contempt proceedings have two fundamental attributes: (1) the contemnor must be capable of taking the action sought to be coerced, and (2) no further contempt sanctions are imposed upon the contemnor's compliance with the pertinent court order.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to punish [defendants] for prior conduct that they could not undo”
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.