Waggoner v. Waggoner’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2026
11 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 14 Ill. App. 3d 74 - Lagen v. Lagen · 130 Ill. App. 2d 807 - Dauderman v. Dauderman · 57 Ill. App. 3d 588 - Halper v. Halper · 19 Ill. App. 3d 932 - In Re Estate of Kite · 4 Ill. App. 3d 179 - Breuer v. Breuer
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““4. Plaintiff will retain the residence of the parties, the motor vehicle and the furnishings, subject to the indebtedness on said items ***.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pollard v. Waggoner
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.