Pellow v. Pellow’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2022
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 Mabry v. Baird · Wesley v. Chandler · Miller v. Miller · 99 Ill. App. 3d 107 - In Re Marriage of Garlinski · Chastain v. Posey
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.
“entry of the written memorial upon the court's journal is not essential to the validity of the judgment, and failure to properly file a journal entry of judgment does not render judgment void.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The wife] prayed for and was granted a divorce. At no time before the decree was entered, at the time the decree was entered, or in a post-decree motion did [she] object of record that the court should not grant the divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A cause of action for divorce is purely personal, and it has been held that such a cause of action terminates on the death of either spouse before the entry of a final decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.