2 Ill. 2d 104 - Cross v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whenever a divorce is granted, if it shall appear to the court that, either party holds the title to property equitably belonging to the other, the court may compel conveyance thereof to be made to the party entitled to the same, upon such terms as it shall deem equitable.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 26 Ill. App. 3d 313 - Fowler v. Fowler · 17 Ill. App. 3d 1008 - Newhouse v. Newhouse

2. ““Where, however, the wife has, from equitable considerations, other and additional interests in her husband’s property apart from those that attach to her status as a wife, examples being where her money came into the hands of her husband and has been invested by him in the real estate to which he holds title, or if her earnings and savings have gone into his possession and aided him in acquiring the real estate, or if the real estate represents the joint earnings, work and savings of the parties, the court may properly, when dissolving the marriage relation, decree that the wife shall be vested with the title in fee to such real estate in such a way as to effect an equitable and fair adjustment of the parties’ property rights. [Citations.] The cited cases also ordain that where special equities are claimed justifying the conveyance of the husband’s property to the wife, the special circumstances must be alleged in the complaint and established by the proof and relief can be granted only in accordance with the allegations of the complaint sustained by the proof.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 17 Ill. App. 3d 1008 - Newhouse v. Newhouse

3. ““* * * where special equities are claimed justifying the conveyance of the husband’s property to the wife, the special circumstances must be alleged in the complaint and established by the proof and relief can be granted only in accordance with the allegations of the complaint sustained by the proof,””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 26 Ill. App. 3d 313 - Fowler v. Fowler