21 Ill. App. 3d 454 - Look v. Look’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably In re Custody of Townsend (1981), 63 Ill. App. 3d 66 - Cebrzynski v. Cebrzynski (1978)
37 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 42 Ill. 2d 201 - People Ex Rel. Edwards v. Livingston · 16 Ill. 2d 556 - Giacopelli v. Florence Crittenton Home · Jarrett v. Jarrett · People ex rel. Hermann v. Jenkins
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In proceedings affecting the custody of a child, the primary consideration is the present and prospective welfare of the child, or, as otherwise stated, the best interests of the child. Naturally, no hard-and-fast rule can be laid down as to what will best serve the welfare and interests of a child. Each case must be determined according to its own circumstances and the question rests largely in the sound discretion of the trial court. When the people having the actual custody of the child at the time a change is sought have properly provided and supervised its needs for a substantial period of time and the child has become attached to the environment and to the grandparents who have made possible the happiness, security and comfort of its early years, a court is not justified in transferring that custody to another, except for the most cogent reasons. When people, through the goodness of their hearts, take a child into their home and lavish on it their affection and care, they are entitled to much consideration in an action involving the custody of such child. Jarrett v. Jarrett, 348 Ill. App. 1 , aff'd 415 Ill. 126 ." 21 Ill. App.3d 454, 457-58 , 315 N.E.2d 623, 625-26 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"To sever home ties of long standing as here where the child has lived with the grandparents almost all of his life, a home full of love and care, for the sole purpose of placing him with his father cannot be said to be in the best interest of the child."”
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.