McCrillis v. Utterback’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2002
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 · Finney v. White · Roche v. Roche · Dyblie v. Dyblie · Stewart v. Sunagel
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principles applying to this case are well settled. A fiduciary relationship does not obtain between a parent and a child as a matter of law. [Citation.] The burden of proving facts from which a confidential and fiduciary relationship arises is on the party seeking to set aside the conveyance to establish the relationship. The proof must be clear, convincing and so strong as to lead to but one conclusion. [Citations.] It is aptly said in Dyblie v. Dyblie, 389 Ill. 326 , that to prove a fiduciary relation special confidence and trust on one side and dominance and influence on the other must be shown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brecel v. Carlstedt
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.