People v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 196 Ill. 2d 181 - In Re CN (2001), In re D.L. (2000)
60 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 74 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Berland · People v. Sallee · 79 Ill. 2d 147 - People v. Robinson · 218 Ill. App. 3d 444 - In Interest of LLS · 149 Ill. 2d 118 - People v. Johnson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A separate hearing and determination of the child's best interests is mandatory in order to ensure the proper focus on those interests.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"D. `Unfit person' means any person whom the court shall find to be unfit to have a child, without regard to the likelihood that the child will be placed for adoption. The grounds of unfitness are any one or more of the following: * * * (m) Failure by a parent (i) to make reasonable efforts to correct the conditions that were the basis for the removal of the child from the parent, or (ii) to make reasonable progress toward the return of the child to the parent within 9 months after an adjudication of neglected or abused minor under Section 2-3 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or dependent minor under Section 2-4 of that Act, or (iii) to make reasonable progress toward the return of the child to the parent during any 9-month period after the end of the initial 9-month period following the adjudication of neglected or abused minor under Section 2-3 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or dependent minor under Section 2-4 of that Act. If a service plan has been established as required under Section 8.2 of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act to correct the conditions that were the basis for the removal of the child from the parent and if those services were available, then, for purposes of this Act, `failure to make reasonable progress toward the return of the child to the parent' includes (I) the parent's failure to substantially fulfill his or her obligations under the service plan and correct the conditions that brought the child into care within 9 months after the adju”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“750 ILCS 50/1(D)(m) (West 1994). Following the removal of a child from the home, the parents must make reasonable efforts to correct the conditions that caused the child to be removed from the home. In re A.P., 277 Ill.App.3d 593 , 598, 214 Ill.Dec. 299 , 660 N.E.2d 1006 (1996). At a minimum, parents must make”
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.