202 Ill. 2d 282 - Tekela v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably 368 Ill. App. 3d 1052 - People v. Adeline E. (2006), 221 Ill. 2d 338 - In Re JT (2006)
67 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 Coleman v. Thompson · Yakus v. United States · 197 Ill. 2d 514 - Steinbrecher v. Steinbrecher · 50 Ill. 2d 351 - Jack Spring, Inc. v. Little · 195 Ill. 2d 42 - People v. Crane
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the appellate court reversed the circuit court's judgment granting the State's petition, the circuit court's judgment therefore ceased to have any effect. No further action by [the defendant] was required. By operation of law, the finding that she was unfit was rendered a nullity. She regained her parental rights as if they had never been lost.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A petition for relief from a final order or judgment entered in a proceeding under this Act, after 30 days from the entry thereof under the provisions of Sec. 2-1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure or otherwise, must be filed not later than one year after the entry of the order or judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“demand a substantially higher level of competency”
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.