Matthew Miguel C. v. Umer’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2025
13 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 63 Ill. 2d 128 - First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. · 112 Ill. 2d 48 - In Re Custody of Peterson · 218 Ill. 2d 428 - Timmons v. Ronald L.S. · 374 Ill. App. 3d 1064 - General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Stoval · 344 Ill. App. 3d 574 - In Re Custody of Ayala
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.
“[UJpon the death of the custodial parent, 'the minor child will then be considered to be in the physical custody of the surviving natural parent,' even if the child is living with someone else.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. S.M. v. S.G.“`Standing' in this context refers to a statutory requirement the nonparent must meet before the trial court proceeds to the merits of the petition for custody.”
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.