55 Ill. App. 3d 140 - Comstock v. Comstock’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 1989
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 25 Ill. 2d 342 - Everett v. Everett · Baker v. Baker · Ludwig v. Ludwig · 37 Ill. App. 3d 689 - Gottemoller v. Gottemoller · 13 Ill. App. 3d 380 - Pohren v. Pohren
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our Statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 40, par. 19) provides that when a divorce is decreed, the court may make such order touching the alimony and maintenance of wife or husband as from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case shall be fit, reasonable and just.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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