58 Ill. App. 3d 276 - Olson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2020
3 district · 9 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 Walters v. Walters · 17 Ill. 2d 439 - Guyton v. Guyton · Storey v. Storey · 90 Ill. App. 2d 184 - Roberts v. Roberts · Buck v. Buck
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* » 9 q'hg pUrp0se 0f a settlement agreement is not to provide a means for first determining whether alimony is in gross or periodic in form and then to proclaim that due to the in gross or periodic character of the alimony, certain rights and consequences exist. Rather, the purpose of a settlement agreement is to establish the rights and duties of the parties to the agreement in the first instance. It is those vested rights, freely given by each party, which must control. Only if the agreement, when taken as a whole, fails to sufficiently define those rights and duties is it necessary or indeed justifiable to determine the form of alimony involved and the corresponding rights and duties which the law prescribes for that form.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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