29 Ill. 2d 392 - Wilkinson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2016
11 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 Clinton Wire Cloth Co. v. Gardner · Totten v. Totten · Spies v. Demayo · Kelly v. Lehmann · Brown v. Gaffney
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“equitable mortgage arises in a situation where money is loaned or credit given in reliance upon the security of property of the debtor, but pledged by him in such manner as not to be enforceable as a mortgage at law.” Wilkinson v. Johnson, 29 Ill.2d 392 , 194 N.E.2d 328, 332 (1963). The Illinois Supreme Court gave as an example”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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