5 Ill. 2d 526 - Watson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

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31 state decisions

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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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While we have held that the information as to the nature and extent of the holdings of the husband need not come directly from him, and that surrounding circumstances may be such as to charge the wife with knowledge of his property (Landes v. Landes, 268 Ill. 11 ; Yarde v. Yarde, 187 Ill. 636 ), it does not follow that general reputation is sufficient to supply that knowledge. (Brown v. Brown, 329 Ill. 198 .) To so hold would vitiate the reasoning behind the duty to make a full and fair explanation of the nature and extent of the husband’s property. General understanding that a person is relatively wealthy is something less than knowing the exact nature and extent of his wealth. Obviously specific knowledge is required before a prospective wife can intelligently choose to take a small sum in payment for a release of her rights and interests in her prospective husband’s property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 85 Ill. App. 3d 532 - Fleming v. Fleming

2. “The facts here indicate that joint tenants entered into a contract to sell property conditioned upon certain payments to be made by the buyer. The doctrine of equitable conversion would have no application on these facts to divest the surviving joint tenant of her rights, as survivor, to the proceeds to be paid under the contract. [ 126 N.E.2d at 224 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gustin v. Stegall