56 Ill. 2d 139 - Gill v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 81 Ill. 2d 317 - Finley v. Finley (1980), 126 Ill. App. 3d 332 - Miller v. Bloomberg (1984)
34 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 · 12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell · Kelley v. Kelley · Plaster v. Plaster · 6 Ill. 2d 469 - Miezio v. Miezio
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the view held in the majority of jurisdictions that when a divorce decree provides for the custody of a child but is silent as to the question of child support, a mother may maintain an action against her for mer husband for moneys expended by her after the decree to support 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.