207 Ill. Dec. 152 - In Re AJ’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2018
20 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 Syck v. Snyder · Morgan v. Parents of M.M. · 138 Ill. 2d 255 - In Re Adoption of Syck · 156 Ill. 2d 53 - In Re MM · 121 Ill. 2d 124 - People v. Enis
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Courts do not, and indeed should not, lightly terminate parental rights or summarily dismiss a mentally ill person's rights. The unfitness of a mentally ill parent is grounded on the parent's inability to discharge parental responsibilities, not the parent's inability to control her conduct." In re A.J. , 269 Ill. App. 3d 824 , 828-29, 207 Ill.Dec. 152 , 646 N.E.2d 1239 , 1242 (1994).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]ot every parent with a psychiatric illness or condition is per se unfit to be a parent and to maintain custody of her children. The statutory scheme does not envision that all parents with a designated mental disability will have their parental rights terminated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“State agency's goal was to reunite respondent with her children. In that regard, the State marshalled the resources available to it to address her mental condition, care for her children and attempt to reunite their family.”
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.