Mueller v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1990
7 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 Persico v. Persico · 6 Ill. App. 3d 1086 - Overton v. Overton · 48 Ill. App. 2d 232 - Jones v. Jones · 33 Ill. App. 3d 1074 - Palacio v. Palacio · 12 Ill. 2d 454 - Savich v. Savich
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is clear that a trial court can only compel a conveyance of property owned jointly by the parties in lieu of alimony under section 18 where the recipient spouse is entitled to alimony, periodic alimony is not feasible, and the conveyance is equitable. Persico v. Persico (1951), 409 Ill. 608 , 100 N.E.2d 904 ; Overton v. Overton (1972), 6 Ill. App. 3d 1086 , 287 N.E.2d 47 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The court may order the husband or wife, as the case may be, to pay to the other party such sum of money, or convey to the party such real or personal property, payable or to be conveyed either in gross or by installments as settlement in lieu of alimony, as the court deems equitable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever a divorce is granted, if it shall appear to the court that either party holds the tide to property equitably belonging to the other, the court may compel conveyance thereof to be made to the party entided to the same, upon such terms as it shall deem equitable.””
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.