56 Ill. App. 3d 446 - Fox v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 92 Ill. App. 3d 708 - In Re Marriage of Wright (1981), 561 So. 2d 565 - Gibson v. Bennett (1990)
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Hampton v. Hampton · 328 Ill. App. 133 - Jacobs v. Jacobs · Shaffner v. Shaffner · Goodwillie v. Millimann · Arndt v. Arndt
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““that the court’s jurisdiction to enforce support money judgments by the extraordinary remedy of contempt is predicated upon the continued dependency of the children, and the need to insure support for these children during their minority. However, when a child reaches majority, the purpose and justification for this extreme remedy terminates.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“harsh and extreme sanction which, especially as it concerns the payment of a money decree, should be resorted to only where there is no other reasonable means by which the judgment may be enforced and then not in the first instance.”
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.