348 Ill. App. 31 - Riddlesbarger v. Riddlesbarger’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1987
14 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 Henry v. Metz · Leigh v. National Hollow Brake-Beam Co. · Riddlesbarger v. Riddlesbarger · Kellner v. Schmidt · 341 Ill. App. 107 - Riddlesbarger v. Riddlesbarger
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In case of appeal by husband or wife, the court in which the decree or order is rendered may grant and enforce the payment of such money for her or his defense and such equitable alimony during the pendency of the appeal as to such court shall seem reasonable and proper.””
2 later decisions 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.