Burke v. Hammonds’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2001
5 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 5 Ill. App. 2d 297 - Solomon v. Solomon · Winkenhofer v. Griffin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our marriage dissolution statute mandates that it ‘shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes.’ [footnote omitted] Two of these are the safeguarding of family relationships and the mitigating of potential harm to spouses and their children caused by a dissolution, [footnote omitted].” Burke, 586 S.W.2d at 308 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Likins v. Logsdon““No one can seriously argue that changing a child’s name from that of his natural father to that of his step-father could not weaken the emotional bond between the child and his father, or that such a change would necessarily be in the child’s best interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blasi v. Blasi
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.