358 Ill. App. 3d 1046 - Best v. Best’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2024
15 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 People v. Brenda T. · 212 Ill. 2d 441 - People v. Arthur H. · People v. Nancy F. · 203 Ill. 2d 264 - People Ex Rel. Sherman v. Cryns · 352 Ill. App. 3d 1129 - Franz v. Calaco Development Corp.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any proceeding to obtain, modify reopen or appeal an order of protection, whether commenced alone or in conjunction with a civil or criminal proceeding, shall be governed by the rules of civil procedure of this State. The standard of proof in such a proceeding is proof by a preponderance of the evidence, whether the proceeding is heard in criminal or civil court.” (Emphasis added.) 750 ILCS 60/205(a) (West 2004).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““I do have some question as to the credibility of the Petitioner. She’s been adequately impeached — though not, I don’t want to say substantially — by some prior indiscretions on her part. I think she was a well coached witness. I noticed that before she answered any question, she thought long and hard about the answer. Rather than really telling me what the truth was, I think that she was searching for the right answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““I guess the bottom line that I come down to, though, is I have to make a decision, and the decision is not one that is beyond a reasonable doubt but by a mere preponderance of the evidence in these cases. I have to take her testimony which she testified to as corroborated by the witnesses, specifically the police officer, as by a preponderance of evidence as being true, and I’m going to issue the Order of Protection.””
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.