49 Ill. App. 3d 441 - Howard v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
February 1994
most recently cited
7 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bushnell v. Cooper · 5 Ill. 2d 456 - Cross v. Cross · Dinet v. Eigenmann · Tuttle v. Gunderson · 124 Ill. App. 2d 254 - Spiro v. Spiro
Most-quoted passages
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“death settle[s] the question of separation beyond all controversy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Briece v. Briece
How this case has been treated — in progress
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