267 Ill. App. 3d 496 - In Re Beatriz S.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 214 Ill. 2d 31 - In Re Austin W. (2005), People v. Perseta D. (2005)
38 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 55 Ill. 2d 240 - Hardware State Bank v. Cotner · 42 Ill. 2d 425 - The PEOPLE v. Noble · 210 Ill. App. 3d 521 - Violetta B. v. Stanciel · People v. English M. · 189 Ill. App. 3d 392 - In Re LM
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the overriding purpose of the Act to which all other goals are subordinate is the best interest of the child involved.”
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.