Billion v. Billion’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Schieffer v. Schieffer (2013), Terca v. Terca (2008)
1 district · 54 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 Orr v. Orr · Rauer v. United States · Soria v. United States · 71 Ill. 2d 563 - Kujawinski v. Kujawinski · Lien v. Lien
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the duration of the marriage; (2) the value of the property owned by the parties; (3) the ages of the parties; (4) the health of the parties; (5) the competency of the parties to earn a living; (6) the contribution of each party to the accumulation of the property; and (7) the income-producing capacity of the parties’ assets.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a divorce is granted, the courts may make an equitable division of the property belonging to either or both, whether the title to such property is in the name of the husband or the wife. In making such division of the property, the court shall have regard for equity and the circumstances of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Novak v. Novak · Godfrey v. Godfrey“whether a judicial mind, in view of the law and circumstances of the particular case, could reasonably have reached such a conclusion.”
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.