93 Ill. App. 3d 127 - Coons v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Sabatka v. Sabatka (1994), 133 Ill. App. 3d 348 - Perlman v. Time, Inc. (1985)
111 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 Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · 42 Ill. App. 3d 159 - Blazina v. Blazina · 89 Ill. App. 3d 1078 - In Re Marriage of Thornton · 23 Ill. App. 3d 936 - Thomas v. Thomas · Nelson v. Nelson
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ollowing dissolution of marriage, the custodial parent and children cannot be allowed to freeze out the other parent in his employment or otherwise preclude him from seeking economic improvement for himself and his family. So long as his employment, educational or investment decisions are undertaken in good faith and not deliberately designed to avoid responsibility for those dependent upon him, he should be permitted to enhance his economic fortunes without penalty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harvey v. Robinson · Arce v. Arce““In ordering the payment of child support, a circuit court must consider the needs of the child, the separate income of the wife, and the income of the husband. [Citations.] Because changes in these facts cannot be anticipated with accuracy, a circuit court should ordinarily not try to anticipate such changes by making its award of child support to increase automatically with the child’s age.” McManus v. McManus, 38 Ill. App. 3d 645, 647 , 348 N.E.2d 507, 509 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““whether the change in status was prompted by a desire to evade financial responsibility for supporting the children or to otherwise jeopardize their interests.” Coons v. Wilder (1981), 93 Ill. App. 3d 127, 132 , 416 N.E.2d 785, 790 .”
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.