Walters v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 78 Ill. App. 3d 627 - In Re Marriage of Olsher (1979), 30 Ill. 2d 440 - Canady v. Canady (1964)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 94 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 341 Ill. App. 561 - Walters v. Walters · Storey v. Storey · Banck v. Banck · Hotzfield v. Hotzfield · Kohl v. Kohl
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had the defendant complied with the terms of his agreement plaintiff would not be in court. It was his refusal to carry out its provisions which forced her to resort to the courts for relief. In such a situation the plaintiff should not be without her reasonable attorney’s fees, a right accorded to her under the statute, and the referral by the Appellate Court for an order therefor was proper.””
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.