409 Ill. App. 3d 659 - Tully v. McLean’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
42 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell · 127 Ill. 2d 61 - Estate of Wernick v. MacKs · 177 Ill. 2d 166 - Schwartz v. Cortelloni · 58 Ill. 2d 289 - Vendo Company v. Stoner
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The essence of a fiduciary relationship is that one party is dominated by another; the presence of a significant degree of dominance and superiority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not to compensate the injured party but rather to deprive the wrongdoer of the gains from the breach of duty and to deter disloyalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the difference between the punitive damages awarded by the jury and the civil penalties authorized or imposed in comparable cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.