9 Ill. App. 3d 922 - Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 144 Ill. App. 3d 629 - In Re Marriage of Passiales (1986), 41 Ill. App. 3d 154 - Green v. Green (1976)
33 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · 35 Ill. 2d 305 - Faris v. Faris · Dunham v. Dunham · Way v. Way · McFarlin v. McFarlin
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““9. JOHN T. PHIPPS states that his authority in this case is limited to appearing on behalf of Respondent, GREGORY VILLAROSA, on this motion to object to the jurisdiction of the court over the person of the Respondent and for no other purpose. WHEREFORE, Respondent, GREGORY VILLAROSA, prays that this court will find it has no jurisdiction over Respondent and enter an order quashing the service of summons on him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Affirmative acts of abandonment of the Illinois residence must be proved to sustain abandonment. Temporary absence, admittedly lengthy in this case, does not equate with abandonment.”
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.