246 Ill. App. 3d 883 - Eldridge v. Eldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 408 Ill. App. 3d 564 - Khan v. BDO Seidman, LLP (2011), Burns Philp Food, Inc. v. Cavalea Continental Freight, Inc. (1998)
4 federal appellate · 14 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 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · County of Du Page v. Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, Inc. · 126 Ill. 2d 186 - Suttles v. Vogel · 217 Ill. App. 3d 844 - Wilson v. Wilson · Kester v. Crilly
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust is raised by operation of law and is created when a court finds that a party in possession of wrongfully acquired [or possessed] property is the constructive trustee of the property because it would be inequitable for that party to retain possession of the property.”); Pottinger v. Pottinger, 238 Ill.App.3d 908 , 179 Ill.Dec. 116 , 605 N.E.2d 1130, 1137 (1992) (constructive trust "created when a court declares the party in possession of wrongfully acquired [or possessed] property as the constructive trustee of that property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A constructive trust is raised by operation of law and is created when a court finds that the party in possession of wrongfully acquired [or possessed] property is the constructive trustee of the property because it would be inequitable for that party to retain possession of the property”); Pottinger v. Pottinger, 238 Ill.App.3d 908, 916 , 179 Ill.Dec. 116, 123 , 605 N.E.2d 1130, 1137 (2d Dist.1992) (a constructive trust is”
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.