65 Ill. App. 3d 945 - Elliott v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 1994 · most notably 89 Ill. App. 3d 273 - In Re Marriage of Jacobson (1980), 83 Ill. App. 3d 919 - Babcock v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. (1979)
66 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 45 Ill. App. 3d 849 - Zalduendo v. Zalduendo · 67 Ill. App. 2d 410 - Kelleher v. Kelleher · 15 Ill. 2d 139 - In Re Fisher · 45 Ill. App. 3d 365 - Robin v. Robin · 38 Ill. App. 3d 35 - Welsh v. Welsh
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.
““It is still incumbent upon the court to consider both the needs of the children and the ability of the former spouses to pay when considering a petition to increase child support. But, instead of marching in step to some precise equation of percentage change, the court considers the children’s needs as ranging from the bare necessities to the practical, to the useful, to the luxurious. Similarly, the court considers whether the means of each spouse has changed absolutely, has changed relative to the other, and has changed relative to the children’s needs. The court must then accommodate, or adapt, or harmonize all these considerations to determine whether an increase in support is justified. Child support payments must necessarily reflect a balance of the intensity of the child’s need with the ability of the parents to provide for that need. When a material change has occurred creating a substantial imbalance between the child’s needs and the parent’s support capabilities, then the Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act as well as the Swanson decision requires modification.” 65 Ill. App. 3d 945, 949 , 382 N.E.2d 1279, 1282-83 .”
2 later decisions 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.