Jackson v. O'CONNELL

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• in a partition action, “[i]t is error to apportion the attorney’s fees where the suit is strongly contested and defendants in good faith advanced reasonable and substantial grounds on which they defended”
• a “good and substantial defense” is not “merely formal, frivolous, or vexatious”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Anderson v. Anderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-05-24· cited 8×
• Clayton v. Bradford National Bank
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-09-21· cited 7×
• Lane v. Budiselich
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-03-14· cited 7×
• Bailey v. Bailey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-12-09· cited 6×
• Herrman v. Golden
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-03-11· cited 4×
• Gapinske v. Nelson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-12-08
• McDunn v. McDunn
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2026-06-05

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McMullen v. Reynolds
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1904-04-20· cited 28×
• Jackson v. O'CONNELL
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1961-09-22· cited 26×
• Gebhardt v. Warren
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1948-01-22· cited 22×
• Habberton v. Habberton
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1895-06-14· cited 16×
• Harrison v. Kamp
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1949-05-19· cited 10×
• Adams v. Adams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1947-11-20· cited 8×
• O'MALLEY v. Walker
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1955-03-07· cited 7×
• Maciaszek v. Maciaszek
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1963-10-01· cited 2×