52 Ill. App. 3d 220 - Roth v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 93 Ill. App. 3d 127 - Coons v. Wilder (1981), 185 Ill. App. 3d 778 - Klawitter v. Crawford (1989)
30 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 Nye v. Nye · 22 Ill. App. 3d 1045 - Kaufman v. Kaufman · 6 Ill. 2d 469 - Miezio v. Miezio · Stunz v. Stunz · 5 Ill. App. 3d 627 - Girolamo v. Girolamo
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““*** Allowance of attorney’s fees, however, in post-decree proceedings concerning the custody and maintenance of children is within the sound judicial discretion of the trial court and depends upon the particular circumstances of the individual case. [Citation.] The court looks to the relative financial position of the parties, and the party seeking attorney’s fees must show financial inability to pay and the ability of the other spouse to do so. [Citation.] A further consideration is the identity of the party who precipitated the need for the current legal fees. [Citations.]””
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.