122 Ill. 2d 153 - Bush v. Squellati’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2021
24 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 40 Ill. 2d 338 - Summers v. Summers · 108 Ill. 2d 206 - Lingwall v. Hoener · 66 Ill. 2d 28 - Chodzko v. Chodzko · 58 Ill. 2d 220 - Russell v. Klein · Walter v. Northern Insurance of New York
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is a familiar rule of construction that statutes in derogation of the common law cannot be construed as changing the common law beyond what is expressed by the words of such statute or is necessarily implied from what is expressed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“At common law, grandparents could be entitled to court-ordered visitation with a minor child only when special circumstances were shown.”
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.