185 Ill. App. 3d 122 - Nees v. Doan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2023
17 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 182 Ill. App. 3d 574 - Johnson v. Burnett · 38 Ill. App. 3d 217 - In Re Adoption of Smith · 115 Ill. App. 3d 169 - In Re Custody of Mitchell · 93 Ill. App. 3d 670 - Estes v. Garrison · 87 Ill. App. 3d 1100 - In Re Adoption of Lucas
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"read so broadly that it encompasses a complete termination of parental rights where a proposed adoption by a specified known party is not consummated. In order for the statutory structure of section 10 to have any meaning, section 10(A) must be read to provide for irrevocable consent to a specific adoption only. Any other construction of section 10(A) would render it superfluous." See Nees v. Doan, 185 Ill.App.3d at 128 , 133 Ill.Dec. 180 , 540 N.E.2d 1046 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As the mother here seeks the return of her child and did so in a timely fashion, we need not address the difficult problems that may arise where the natural parents do not wish the return of the child or where a considerable amount of time may pass between the consent and the denial of the petition for adoption.” Nees, 185 Ill. App. 3d at 129 , 540 N.E.2d at 1050 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n adoption decree is not in the nature of a consent decree”
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.