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← 319 Ill. 146 - Herrick v. Herrick

Herrick v. Herrick’s Empirical Analysis

1925

Citation profile

96
cited by 96 later decisions
14
states following
October 1987
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 82 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably 26 Cal. 2d 605 - Hough v. Hough (1945), German v. German (1936)

5 federal appellate · 82 state decisions — followed in 14 states

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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 Audubon v. Shufeldt · Kelley v. Kelley · Cole v. Cole · Storey v. Storey · Southworth v. Treadwell

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

  1. ““In making the change the court should take into consideration, as it apparently did in the case at bar, the property and income of the parties, their ages, health and social conditions, and whether there are children dependent upon one or both of them for support.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Cahill v. Cahill · 131 Ill. App. 2d 388 - Pearlman v. Pearlman
  2. ““* * * but that does not preclude the court which entered the decree from modifying it when there is a change in circumstances which justifies a modification.”,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Prime v. Prime
  3. “make such alterations in the allowance of alimony and maintenance, and the care, custody and support of the children, as shall appear reasonable and proper.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. George R. Joslyn, George R. Joslyn and Dorothy Joslyn, and George R. Joslyn v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

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.