Banck v. Banck’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Hager v. Hager (1974), Walters v. Walters (1951)
8 federal appellate · 23 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 Audubon v. Shufeldt · Herrick v. Herrick · Cole v. Cole · Craig v. Craig · Adler v. Adler
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a divorce shall be decreed, the court may make such order touching the alimony and maintenance of the wife or husband, the care, custody and support of the children, or any of them as, from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case, shall be fit, reasonable and just; . . . and provided fu-ih ther that a party shall not be entitled to alimony and maintenance after remarriage. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A party shall not be entitled to alimony and maintenance after remarriage; but, regardless of remarriage by such party or death of either party, such party shall be entitled to receive the unpaid installments of any settlement in lieu of alimony ordered to be paid or conveyed in the decree.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 40, par. 19.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Alimony past due under a decree is a vested debt and cannot be set aside nor can payment of amount past due thereunder be changed by a subsequent order of court.””
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.