Compton v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 132 Ill. App. 3d 655 - A. T. Kearney, Inc. v. Inca International, Inc. (1985), 25 Ill. 2d 250 - Perry v. Wyeth (1962)
20 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 Stephenson v. Kulichek · Miethe v. Miethe · Gilbert v. Cohn
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust arises when the legal title to money or property is obtained by a person in violation, express or implied, of some duty owing to him who is equitably entitled thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a constructive trust arises only when fraud is proved or when there is a fiduciary relationship in which the dominant party took advantage of the other.”
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.