182 Ill. App. 3d 574 - Johnson v. Burnett’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Procopio v. Johnson (1993), 207 Ill. App. 3d 813 - Petition of Filippelli (1990)
4 federal appellate · 54 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 Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · 63 Ill. 2d 128 - First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. · Backlund v. Barnhart · 94 Ill. 2d 138 - People v. Boykin · Drummond v. Fulton County Department of Family & Children's Services
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that of a temporary way station on the road of a child's life,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is understandable that, after a period of years, a bonding within the foster family would occur which would make separation difficult. * * * It is this bonding which is also the reason the legislature has required that foster parents, who have had custody of their charge for over 12 months, be given first consideration in adopting that child * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ince Illinois law does not create an expectation of a continued relationship, foster parents have no constitutionally protected liberty interest in the continued custody of their charges.”
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.