25 Ill. 2d 342 - Everett v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis

1962

Citation profile

cited by 64 later decisions

states following

March 1981

most recently cited

64 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 1981 · most notably 42 Ill. App. 3d 159 - Blazina v. Blazina (1976), 27 Ill. 2d 140 - Schwarz v. Schwarz (1963)

64 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 Persico v. Persico · 5 Ill. 2d 456 - Cross v. Cross · Anderson v. Anderson · Spalding v. Spalding · Podgornik v. Podgornik

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

““[I]t must be alleged and proved by the spouse seeking a part or all of the property in the name of the other that he or she has furnished valuable consideration such as money or services other than those normally performed in the marriage relation which has directly or indirectly been used to acquire or enhance the value of the property.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 16 Ill. App. 3d 879 - Norris v. Norris · Pettit v. Pettit
““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. 39 Ill. App. 3d 547 - Leone v. Leone · 58 Ill. App. 3d 661 - Hogan v. Hogan
““To justify a conveyance or transfer under section 17 [of the Divorce Act], however, special circumstances and equities must be alleged and established by the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 55 Ill. App. 3d 140 - Comstock v. Comstock

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.