28 Ill. App. 3d 987 - Pollack v. Pollack’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 102 Ill. App. 2d 373 - Burkitt v. Downey · 80 Ill. App. 2d 25 - Messenger v. Rutherford · Geiger v. Merle · In Re Estate of Donovan · 132 Ill. App. 2d 658 - Union Oil Co. of California v. Lang
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of * * * creating the right of a spouse to renounce the provisions of the will and setting forth the methods of its accomplishment, is to enable the spouse to elect which method of taking would be most advantageous to him or her.”
1 later decision 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.