73 Ill. 2d 331 - Boyer v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably 106 Ill. 2d 546 - People Ex Rel. Mangold v. Flieger (1985), Morrill v. Tong (1983)
34 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Hanson v. Denckla · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · 22 Ill. 2d 432 - Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · 11 Ill. 2d 378 - Nelson v. Miller
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant in our case derived no commercial or personal benefits from the presence of his children or ex-wife in Illinois; thus, the facts of our case support neither the reasonableness-and-fairness test nor the minimum-contact criterion of due process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A]n orderly and fair administration of the law requires protection against being compelled to answer claims brought in distant States with which the defendant has little or no association, and in which he would be faced with an undue burden in making his defense, keeping in mind that lawsuits can be brought on frivolous demands and groundless claims. It should not lie within the choice of the plaintiff to engage in ‘forum shopping,’ nor should the defendant be required to defend in any and all jurisdictions wherein the wife may choose to maintain her action.” Boyer v. Boyer (1978), 73 Ill. 2d 331, 341 .”
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.