13 Ill. App. 3d 964 - Waldron v. Waldron’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Sillman v. Sillman (1975), 14 Cal. 3d 150 - Ganschow v. Ganschow (1975)
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 52 Ill. App. 2d 262 - Gregory v. Gregory · 29 Ill. 2d 68 - The People v. York · Harding v. Harding · 125 Ill. App. 2d 91 - Edwards v. Edwards · Applegate v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t has long been a rule of construction in determining the meaning of judgments or decrees that one must examine the situation as it existed at the rendition of the judgment. [Citation.] Tire situation as it existed at the rendition of the divorce decree included a statutory provision that the age of majority for males was twenty one years.””
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.