72 Ill. App. 3d 59 - Dodson v. Nink’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 383 Ill. App. 3d 645 - Midwest Builder Distributing, Inc. v. Lord and Essex, Inc. (2007), Sahadi v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (1983)
8 federal appellate · 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 25 Ill. 2d 447 - Shay v. Penrose · Baston v. Clifford · 6 Ill. App. 3d 434 - Smith v. Vernon · 45 Ill. App. 3d 243 - Pruett v. La Salceda, Inc. · 108 Ill. App. 2d 459 - Linster v. Regan
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the owner of land enters into a valid and enforceable contract for its sale[,] he continues to hold the legal title, but in trust for the buyer; and the buyer becomes the equitable owner and holds the purchase money in trust for the seller. The conversion takes place at the time of entering into [the] contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Walston“`[W]here a contract contains a condition precedent, the contract is neither enforceable nor effective until the condition is performed or the contingency occurs.'”
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.