69 Ill. 2d 220 - Sommer v. Borovic’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 71 Ill. 2d 563 - Kujawinski v. Kujawinski (1978), 164 Ill. 2d 468 - Petition of Kirchner (1995)
44 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 · Kelley v. Kelley · 65 Ill. 2d 249 - People Ex Rel. Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Gitchoff · 34 Ill. 2d 286 - People Ex Rel. Lehman v. Lehman · Dow v. Blake
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court's primary concern obviously is not the wishes of the parents but rather the best interests of the child”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The decretal court retains jurisdiction of a divorce proceeding at all times to enforce, adjust or modify the original decree in regard to the custody and care of children as changing circumstances may warrant.””
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.