129 Ill. App. 2d 209 - Fox v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
December 1977
most recently cited
12 state decisions
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a divorce is decreed, the court may make such order touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife, husband, the care, custody and support of the children, or any of them as, from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case, shall be fit, reasonable and just 000 The court may order the husband or wife, as the case may be, to pay to the other party such sum of money, or convey to the party such real or personal property, payable or to be conveyed either in gross or by installments as settlement in lieu of alimony, as the court deems equitable.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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