60 Ill. 2d 574 - Herbolsheimer v. Herbolsheimer’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2013
15 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 92 Ill. App. 2d 88 - Swenson v. Wintercorn · Tidholm v. Tidholm · Kolze v. Fordtran · 15 Ill. 2d 255 - Peters v. Catt · 21 Ill. 2d 131 - Lynn v. Lynn
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““9 9 9 where there is special confidence reposed in one who, in equity and good conscience, is bound to act in good faith and with due regard to the interests of the one reposing the confidence. It exists where confidence is reposed on one side and resulting superiority and influence is found on the other. [Citations.] The relationship may exist as a matter of law between attorney and chent, guardian and ward, principal and agent, and the like, or it may be moral, social, domestic, or even personal.” See also Herbolsheimer v. Herbolsheimer (1975), 60 Ill. 2d 574, 577 , 328 N.E.2d 529 ; Davis v. Brickey (1947), 397 Ill. 556, 564 , 74 N.E.2d 710 .”
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.