193 Ill. 2d 455 - Lulay v. Lulay’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 1 - King v. First Capital Financial Services Corp. (2005), 202 Ill. 2d 393 - People v. Mary Ann P. (2002)
154 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decisionmaking function lies at the core of parents' liberty interest in the care, custody, and control of their children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.