172 Ill. 2d 523 - In Re Lawrence M.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 199 Ill. 2d 325 - Belleville Toyota, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (2002), 207 Ill. 2d 68 - People v. Moore (2003)
2 federal appellate · 131 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 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao · 112 Ill. 2d 428 - Kellerman v. MCI Telecommunications Corp. · 133 Ill. 2d 295 - Healy v. Vaupel · 109 Ill. 2d 357 - Niven v. Siqueira · Illinois Consolidated Telephone Co. v. Illinois Commerce Commission
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] suit against state officials which seeks to compel them to perform their duty is not held to be a suit against the state even though the duty to be performed arises under a certain statute, and the payment of state funds may be compelled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If the minor is ordered placed in a shelter care facility of the Department of Children and Family Services or a licensed child welfare agency, the court shall, upon request of the appropriate Department or other agency, appoint the Department of Children and Family Services Guardianship Administrator or other appropriate agency executive temporary custodian of the minor and the court may enter such other orders related to the temporary custody as it deems fit and proper, including the provision of services to the minor or his family to ameliorate the causes contributing to the finding of probable cause or to the finding of the existence of immediate and urgent necessity.” 705 ILCS 405/2 — 10(2) (West 1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“enter such other orders related to the temporary custody [of the minor] as it deems fit and proper, including the provision of services to the minor or his family to ameliorate the causes contributing to the finding of probable cause or to the finding of the existence of immediate and urgent necessity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.