7 Ill. 2d 608 - Nudd v. Matsoukas’s Empirical Analysis

1956

Citation profile

150

cited by 150 later decisions

states following

May 2018

most recently cited

4 district · 144 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 85 Ill. 2d 124 - Palmateer v. International Harvester Co. (1981), 18 Ill. 2d 11 - Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 (1959)

4 district · 144 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Helvering v. Hallock · Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Hewlett v. George · Roller v. Roller · 41 Wash. 2d 642 - Borst v. Borst

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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"To tolerate such misconduct and deprive a child of relief will not foster family unity but will deprive a person of redress without any corresponding social benefit for an injury long recognized at common law."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Ficarra v. Southern Connecticut Gas Co., No. Cv910289172s (Aug. 21, 1992) · Attwood v. Estate of Attwood
““We do not feel that the announcement of this doctrine should be left to the legislature. The doctrine of parental immunity, as far as it goes, was created by the courts. It is especially for them to interpret and modify that doctrine to correspond with prevalent considerations of public policy and social needs.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 83 Ill. App. 3d 234 - Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. v. Turner · 156 Ill. 2d 76 - Cates v. Cates
“[w]e are indeed treading on dangerous ground when we purport to judge the judicial soundness of our prior opinions by the presence or absence of corrective legislation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 138 Ill. 2d 487 - In Re Marriage of O'Neill · 97 Ill. App. 2d 139 - Graham v. General U. S. Grant Post No. 2665

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.