People v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 324 Ill. App. 3d 661 - In Re ES (2001), 297 Ill. App. 3d 985 - In Interest of Lakita B. (1998)
40 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 United States v. Testan · 79 Ill. 2d 466 - People v. Lackey · 61 Ill. 2d 569 - In Re Adoption of Hoffman · People v. Fontenot · 97 Ill. 2d 212 - In Re Polovchak
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“finds that there is not probable cause to believe that the minor is abused, neglected or dependent it shall release the minor and dismiss the petition.”
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.