12 Ill. App. 3d 302 - Thomas v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2024
22 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 Duncan v. Suhy · Wardlow v. Pozzi · 131 Ill. App. 2d 496 - Vinci v. Vinci · 16 Ill. 2d 201 - Cunningham v. Lawrence · Rich v. Silver
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, by the property settlement agreement incorporated into the dissolution agreement, the parties terminated a joint tenancy. An agreement to sever operates to effect a severance, and the intervening death of one of the joint tenants will not defeat the severance even though the agreement is not performed. The former wife argues that there is insufficient indication of an intent to terminate the joint tenancy, as Article Fourth of the subsequently executed 1974 will [of the former husband] specifically referred to joint tenancy property. However, [the former husband’s] subsequent attempt to force a sale of the home in 1976 when the youngest child reached 18, clearly indicates that he regarded the family home as community property. The trial court properly and reasonably construed paragraph 10 of the property settlement agreement ... pertaining to the sale of the home as one intended to permit the wife and minor children to remain in the family home until one of the three specified conditions occurred. This interpretation is also supported by paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the agreement ... which indicate that the agreement was to settle all of the property rights of the parties, as well as paragraph 13 of the property settlement agreement (pertaining to custody), which expressly refers to the parties’ love and affection for their children and concern for the best interest of their children. Thus, the language of the property settlement agreement and the subsequent conduct of the ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zulk v. Zulk
How this case has been treated — in progress
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