6 Ill. 2d 64 - Sterling v. Dubin’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 95 Ill. 2d 452 - Franciscan Sisters Health Care Corp. v. Dean (1983), 9 Ill. App. 2d 263 - Eizerman v. Behn (1956)
30 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 1 Ill. 2d 160 - Mitchell v. Van Scoyk · Wickes v. Walden · Knudson v. Knudson · Ginsberg v. Ginsberg · Dowie v. Sutton
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the evidence on the issues of mental competency and undue influence in a will contest is conflicting, that on either side being sufficient, alone, to sustain a verdict for that side, the jury and the trial judge are in a better position to determine the issues than is a reviewing court, and a judgment upholding the will will not be reversed on the evidence unless the verdict is contrary to the manifest weight thereof.” (Sterling v. Dubin (1955), 6 Ill. 2d 64, 74 , 126 N.E.2d 718 .)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is argued a confidential relationship to Sterling was proved by the evidence of their illicit sexual relationship that Sterling trusted her. . . . The evidence . . . does not show . . . that a fiduciary relationship existed. The mere facts that she had illicit sexual relations with Sterling and that she was his private secretary do not establish a fiduciary relationship.” 126 N.E.2d at 722-723 .”
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.