Litwin v. Litwin’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2007
15 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 Pasedach v. Auw · Smith v. Gray · Kronenberger v. Heinemann · Dougherty v. Duckels · Wirzbicky v. Dranicki
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“maintenance. Therefore, when promising to resume her marital status, she was merely promising to do what she was already in duty bound to do. A promise of that kind was not a sufficient consideration for the assignment. (Smith v. Gray, 316 Ill. 488 ; Goldsborough v. Gable, 140 id. 269.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohn v. Litwin
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.