Pfaff v. Petrie’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 41 Ill. 2d 215 - Illinois Rockford Corp. v. Kulp (1968), 26 Ill. App. 3d 1015 - Yale Development Co. v. Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank (1975)
21 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 McGlaughlin v. Pickerel · Douglas Lumber Co. v. Chicago Home for Incurables · Fabrice v. Von Der Brelie · Swiney v. Womack · Finney v. White
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A fiduciary relation exists in all cases in which a confidential relationship has been acquired. The origin of the confidence is immaterial. It may be moral, social, domestic, or purely personal.””
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.