Ament v. C.H.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2021
12 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 Morgan v. Parents of M.M. · 156 Ill. 2d 53 - In Re MM · Matter of Jacob · Gierke v. Gierke · Fisher v. Fisher
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statutory 30-day time for appeal is not absolute and this Court can grant extensions of time for filing an appeal under the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re DM · In Interest of Eg“A final decree of adoption and an interlocutory decree of adoption which has become final ... have the following effect... to relieve the natural parents of the adopted individual of all parental rights and responsibilities, and to terminate all legal relationships between the adopted individual and the individual's relatives, including the individual's natural parents, so that the adopted individual thereafter is a stranger to the individual's former relatives for all purposes....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re CRH“An order terminating parental rights of a parent terminates all his rights and obligations with respect to the child and of the child to or through him arising from the parental relationship. The parent is not thereafter entitled to notice of proceedings for the adoption of the child by another nor has he any right to object to the adoption or otherwise to participate in the proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re CRH
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.