Clark v. Clark

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that when a fiduciary relationship exists, “there is a positive duty to disclose materials facts, and a failure to do so is constructively fraudulent”
• “Contracts and transactions between parties to a fiduciary relation, if open, fair and honest when deliberately made are as valid as contracts between other parties.”
• “if he intends the property conveyed to be a gift to the grantee, then no resulting trust will arise”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

46 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Susan Ball v. Cherie Kotter
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-07-23· cited 121×
• Ridgely v. Central Pipe Line Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1951-03-22· cited 65×
• Kester v. Crilly
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1950-03-22· cited 62×
• McCartney v. McCartney
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1956-05-23· cited 48×
• Bremer v. Bremer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1952-01-24· cited 39×
• Kolze v. Fordtran
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1952-05-22· cited 37×
• In re Estate of Shelton
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2018-01-30· cited 31×
• Stone v. Stone
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1950-09-21· cited 30×
• Lemp v. Hauptmann
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-06-08· cited 24×
• Spring Valley Nursing Center v. Allen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-10-16· cited 20×
• Cunningham v. Cunningham
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1960-12-01· cited 18×
• Brown v. Commercial Nat. Bank of Peoria
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1968-04-17· cited 18×
• Head v. Wood
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1959-02-03· cited 17×
• Dombrow v. Dombrow
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1948-09-24· cited 17×
• In Re Estate of Trampenau
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-09-09· cited 16×
• Hallam v. Gladman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1961-07-28· cited 15×
• Hocking v. Hocking
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-08-23· cited 14×
• Paluszek v. Wohlrab
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1953-11-18· cited 12×
• Boryca v. Parry
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-03-23· cited 12×
• Caudill v. Beil
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-09-14· cited 11×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Steinmetz v. Kern
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1941-02-18· cited 45×
• McCord v. Roberts
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1929-02-20· cited 15×
• Galvin v. O'Neill
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1946-03-20· cited 12×
• Wennerholm v. Wennerholm
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1943-01-19· cited 7×
• West v. Lepage
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1942-11-17· cited 7×
• Scherman v. Scherman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1947-01-22· cited 7×
• Hill v. Berger
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1922-02-22· cited 4×