126 Ill. 2d 186 - Suttles v. Vogel’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 228 - Eychaner v. Gross (2002), Columbia Gas Systems Inc (1993)
15 federal appellate · 58 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 101 Ill. 2d 246 - Housing Authority for La Salle County v. Young Men's Christian Ass'n · 114 Ill. 2d 278 - Charles Hester Enterprises, Inc. v. Illinois Founders Insurance · 67 Ill. 2d 296 - Ray v. Winter · 116 Ill. 2d 63 - Catlett v. Novak · 12 Ill. 2d 487 - Carroll v. Caldwell
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust is generally imposed in two situations: first, where actual or constructive fraud is considered as equitable grounds for raising the trust and, second, where there is a fiduciary duty and a subsequent breach of that duty.... Some form of wrongdoing is a prerequisite to the imposition of a constructive trust.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he sole duty of the constructive trustee is to transfer title and possession of the wrongfully acquired property to the beneficiary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A constructive trust will not be imposed unless the complaint makes specific allegations of wrongdoing, such as fraud, breach of a fiduciary duty, duress, coercion or mistake. Furthermore, the grounds for imposing a constructive trust must be so clear, convincing, strong and unequivocal as to lead to but one conclusion.”
2 later decisions 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.