Graig v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Headley v. Headley (1964), In Re People in the Interest of Murley (1951)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Blanton v. Blanton · Duss v. Duss · Kester v. Bostwick · Williams v. Williams · Wood v. Wood
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(2) Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, Vol. 2, 5th Ed., 51 to 143, pars. 385 to 404, treats exhaustively of these equitable maxims and gives many instances or examples of their application. Section 393d (Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, supra) in considering the maxim of `he who seeks equity must do equity' cites the case of a divorced wife who refused to permit her child to visit its father, as provided by the decree of divorce, was not entitled to the aid of a court of equity in collecting alimony until compliance with the decree. Williams v. Williams, 167 Miss. 115 , 148 So. 358 , 88 A.L.R. 197 , and annotations at page 199. The refusal or failure of the wife to comply with the provisions of the support decree may be urged against her in opposition for a rule to show cause to be issued against her husband why he should not be adjudged in contempt for his failure to make required payments. 27 [B] C.J.S. Divorce § 321; Barnaby v. Barnaby, 290 Mich. 335 , 287 N.W. 535 ; Tillinghast v. Clay, 152 Ga. 816 , 111 S.E. 384 ; 17 Am.Jur. 516, par. 681. "(3) In light of the authorities cited, it is our view and we so hold, that the answer of the respondent directed to the rule to show cause previously served upon him contains sufficient legal allegations and, if established by competent testimony, the same will constitute a sufficient legal defense, and it was error for the learned Chancellor below to hold otherwise. The final decree or judgment appealed from is reversed with directions ”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall not remove said children beyond the jurisdiction of the court without special order of the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.