27 Ill. App. 2d 24 - Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
November 1989
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goodale v. . Lawrence · American Milling Co v. Industrial Board · McKellar v. Couch · Schelling v. County of Kankakee
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The expenses of the family *** shall be chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife, or of either of them, in favor of creditors therefor, and in relation thereto they may be sued jointly or separately.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 40, par. 1015.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGloon v. Zmigrocki
How this case has been treated — in progress
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