130 Ill. App. 2d 618 - Webb v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2026
9 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 30 Ill. 2d 440 - Canady v. Canady · Harding v. Harding · 120 Ill. App. 2d 263 - Lewis v. Lewis · 48 Ill. App. 2d 232 - Jones v. Jones · Berg v. Berg
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of estoppel, founded upon the public policy of protecting the marital status and good character of innocent third persons, the legitimacy of children, and the rights and position of persons whose status has been finalized by decree of divorce, will not permit parties to assert inconsistent legal rights * * *." 35 Ill. App. 2d 140 , 151, 182 N.E.2d 366, 371 .”
2 later decisions 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.