Decker v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1980
16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDecker v. Decker
Relationships
Relies on Nagel v. Nagel · Bast v. Bast · Stiles v. Stiles
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A proceeding for the dissolution of the marriage relation involves interests other than those of the husband and wife who are the parties complainant and defendant. The separation of husband and wife by judicial decree concerns vitally the children, if any, of the discordant couple, and affects, in a general way, the home life and domestic relations of the people, the public morals, the prevailing system of social order, and, in a greater or lesser degree, the welfare of every citizen.” Decker v. Decker, 193 Ill. 285, 287-288 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cannon v. Cannon
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.