Craig v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Nelson v. Nelson (1920), 341 Ill. App. 561 - Walters v. Walters (1950)
4 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCraig v. Craig
Relationships
Relies on Cole v. Cole · Stillman v. Stillman · Wightman v. Wightman · Dinet v. Eigenmann · Lennahan v. O'Keefe
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar it was error to set aside and cancel alimony which has already accrued and was due to plaintiff in error under the decree. The amount of such alimony was a debt due from the defendant James E. Craig to the beneficiary in the decree, and the latter had a vested property right therein, which the court was not authorized to take away from her.””
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.