Kolze v. Fordtran’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 163 Ill. 2d 33 - Martin v. Heinold Commodities, Inc. (1994), 217 Ill. 2d 101 - Andrews v. Kowa Printing Corp. (2005)
40 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 Clark v. Clark · Neagle v. McMullen · Bear v. Millikin Trust Co. · McGlaughlin v. Pickerel · Stone v. Stone
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the relationship does not exist as a matter of law or is sought to be established by parol evidence, the proof must be clear, convincing, and so strong, unequivocal, and unmistakable as to lead to but one conclusion. [Citations.] The burden of proving facts from which a fiduciary relationship would arise is on the one who attempts to set aside a conveyance.” Kolze v. Fordtran (1952), 412 Ill. 461, 468 , 107 N.E.2d 686, 690 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Influence, to render a conveyance inoperative, must be of such a nature as to deprive the grantor of his free agency. An undue influence means a wrongful influence, such an influence as makes the grantor or testator in the instrument executed speak the wiU of another and not his own.” See also Schueler v. Blomstrand, 394 Ill. 600, 614-15 , 69 N.E.2d 328 (1946).”
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.