75 Ill. App. 3d 799 - Freeman v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2023
17 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 57 Ill. App. 3d 844 - People v. Gates · 69 Ill. 2d 220 - Sommer v. Borovic · 39 Ill. App. 3d 954 - People v. Hrusosky · 35 Ill. App. 3d 783 - In Re Ice · 342 Ill. App. 637 - Jackson v. Russell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Unfit person’ means any person whom the court shall find to be unfit to have a child sought to be adopted, the grounds of such unfitness being any one of the following: (b) Failure to maintain a reasonable degree of interest, concern or responsibility as to the child’s welfare; O $ <* (g) Failure to protect the child from conditions within his environment injurious to the child’s welfare.””
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.