McCarthy v. McCarthy

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding attorney's renunciation of an expected right under his client's will because attorney had received fair consideration for the renunciation
• upholding attorney’s renunciation of an expected right under his client’s will because attorney had received fair consideration for the renunciation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Joseph v. Lake Michigan Mortgage Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-05-24· cited 49×
• In re the Estate of Baird
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-04-03· cited 25×
• Lytton v. Cole
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1964-12-14· cited 18×
• Bruner v. Illinois Central Railroad
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-09-27· cited 15×
• Harbaugh v. Hausman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-03-07· cited 9×
• In Re Carter
  N.D. Illinois· 2004-05-04· cited 5×
• Matter of Estate of Baird
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-06-18· cited 2×
• In Re the Estate of Rohn
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-03-10

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Mather
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1923-10-20· cited 30×
• Williams v. Swango
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1937-02-12· cited 18×
• Holbrook v. Tomlinson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1922-10-21· cited 17×
• In Re Estate of Reighard
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1949-01-19· cited 14×
• Donough v. Garland
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1915-10-27· cited 14×
• Alward v. Woodard
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1924-12-16· cited 13×
• McCarthy v. McCarthy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1955-05-20· cited 10×
• McIlrath v. McIlrath
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1934-06-04· cited 10×
• Mires v. Laubenheimer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1915-12-22· cited 8×
• Brown v. Cunningham
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1940-01-15· cited 2×