40 Ill. App. 3d 442 - Bellow v. Bellow’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1993
24 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 Walters v. Walters · 17 Ill. 2d 439 - Guyton v. Guyton · 14 Ill. 2d 295 - James v. James · 14 Ill. App. 3d 74 - Lagen v. Lagen · Baker v. Baker
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In reaching our decision we are aware the plaintiff had the benefit of able counsel all through the proceedings. We are reluctant to overturn the property settlement voluntarily entered into, and we are aware the effect of our judgment will be to give Susan Bellow the privilege of having both eliminated the risk of the defendant’s uncertain future as well as taking advantage of his post-divorce success. Nevertheless, we find there is evidence to support the judgment of the trial court, and this court will not set aside the judgment and findings of the trial court unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence. Bilsky v. Bilsky (1974), 18 Ill. App. 3d 329 ; Murphy v. Murphy (1975), 31 Ill. App. 3d 321 .” Bellow v. Bellow (1976), 40 Ill. App. 3d 442, 447 , 352 N.E.2d 427, 432 .”
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.