169 Ill. App. 3d 226 - Warren v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2020
18 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 6 Ill. App. 3d 386 - Volid v. Volid · Guhl v. Guhl · 24 Ill. App. 3d 83 - Eule v. Eule · Warner v. Warner · 138 Ill. App. 3d 13 - In Re Marriage of Burgess
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although marriage is sufficient legal consideration for an antenuptial agreement [citation], the agreement must be fair and reasonable. Illinois requires that an antenuptial agreement guarantee both parties an equitable financial settlement in lieu of a waiver of their rights to property or maintenance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ntenuptial agreements determining the rights of spouses to property or maintenance are valid and enforceable so long as (1) an unforeseen condition of penury is not created due to lack of property resources or lack of employability, (2) the agreement is entered into with full knowledge and without fraud, duress, or coercion, and (3) the agreement is fair and reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a lifestyle far more extravagant than [the wife] could hope to afford on her own”
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.