8 Ill. 2d 494 - McCartney v. McCartney’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell (1958), 99 Ill. App. 3d 493 - Nemeth v. Banhalmi (1981)
47 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 Kester v. Crilly · 3 Ill. 2d 291 - Rizzo v. Rizzo · Clark v. Clark · McGlaughlin v. Pickerel · Bremer v. Bremer
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A fiduciary or confidential relationship exists where, by reason of friendship, agency, business association and experience, trust and confidence are reposed by one person in another who, as a result, gains an influence and superiority over him.” (McCartney v. McCartney (1956), 8 Ill. 2d 494, 499 , 134 N.E.2d 789, 792 .)”
2 later decisions 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.