24 Ill. App. 3d 436 - Gregory v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably 69 Ill. App. 3d 450 - Christian v. Christian (1979), 30 Ill. App. 3d 188 - Shumak v. Shumak (1975)
39 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 8 Ill. 2d 164 - Allendorf v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · 14 Ill. 2d 295 - James v. James · 108 Ill. App. 2d 240 - Stanard v. Stanard · 14 Ill. 2d 15 - Lemon v. Lemon · 128 Ill. App. 2d 377 - Howison v. Howison
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our legislature has the sole power to determine what causes, if any, must be established in order for one of the State’s residents to be entitled to a divorce. While other jurisdictions in recent years have recognized the countervailing consideration that much harm may result from a denial of a divorce where the marriage has ended in fact (24 Am. Jr .2d Divorce and Separation §9), the public policy of our State is to preserve the marriage. (Stanard v. Stanard, 108 Ill. App. 2d 240, 249 (1969).) The law in Illinois remains that a marriage should not be lightly terminated. A plaintiff is required to prove a statutory cause for divorce by competent evidence, even though the court might conclude the marriage to be dead.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Our legislature has the sole power to determine what causes, if any, must be established in order for one of the State’s residents to be entitled to a divorce. While other jurisdictions in recent years have recognized the countervailing consideration that much harm may result from a denial of a divorce where the marriage has ended in fact (24 Am. Jr. 2d Divorce and Separation, §9), the public policy of our State is to preserve the marriage. (Stanard v. Stanard, 108 Ill.App.2d 240, 249 (1969).) The law in Illinois remains that a marriage should not be lightly terminated. A plaintiff is required to prove a statutory cause for divorce by competent evidence, even though the court might conclude the marriage to be dead. McGowan v. McGowan, 15 Ill.App.3d 913, 915 (1973). # # Ü The record reveals that, under the law, neither party met the quantum of proof necessary to support a decree of divorce based upon mental cruelty. Plaintiff testified that at sporadic times during the marriage defendant’s conduct embarrassed and humiliated him, but he failed to establish that defendant’s conduct was calculated or obviously of a nature to torture, discommode or render his life unendurable or miserable and actually affected his physical and mental health. Incidents of humiliation, by themselves, are not sufficient to cause mental cruelty. Defendant’s evidence on her counterclaim fails for the same reason.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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