12 Ill. 2d 616 - Tilley v. Shippee’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 50 Ill. 2d 115 - People Ex Rel. Scott v. Pintozzi (1971), 111 Ill. App. 3d 751 - Graham v. Mimms (1982)
38 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 Van Buskirk v. Van Buskirk · Kane v. Johnson · Reynolds v. Sumner · Baughman v. Baughman · Kohlhaas v. Smith
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These subsequent corporate transactions do not appear to be decisive of the issue of whether or not a resulting trust was created * * * the trial court, in the exercise of its equitable powers, can penetrate behind the screen of a corporate entity or other forms of business in order to apply the equitable maxim that equity will look through the forms to the substance of a transaction in order to ascertain the relationship of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.