13 Ill. App. 2d 354 - Strom v. Strom’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Ex Parte Brewington (1983), 353 Ill. Dec. 254 - Clark v. Children's Memorial Hosp. (2011)
37 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 Kelley v. Kelley · Esteb v. Esteb · Bushnell v. Cooper · Untermann v. Untermann · White v. MacQueen
Most-quoted passages
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“"`[E]quity is not so weak of arm or lame of foot.' From its earliest origins equity was designed to avoid the rigidity of common-law writs and procedure and to adjust itself to the requirements of justice." Strom v. Strom (1957), 13 Ill. App.2d 354, 367 , 142 N.E.2d 172, 179 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here such care and education are necessary to equip the child for adult life and where the financial circumstances of the father are entirely adequate to meet such requirements, equity can and should continue its jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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