Craig v. Schell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Lorang v. Fortis Insurance (2008), Fisher v. Swift Transportation Co. (2008)
2 district · 30 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 Graham v. Rolandson · Simonson v. White · Kudrna v. Comet Corp. · Duchesneau v. Silver Bow County · State v. Zabawa
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is our obligation to decide the cases filed in this Court on the basis of the issues and arguments raised by the parties. In my view the best decisions result where both sides have had the opportunity to vigorously argue and challenge the positions and authorities of the other side. While the temptation is often great to decide a case on the basis of the argument that “should have been made,” but was not, in blind-siding an issue we run the very real risk of substituting advocacy for neutrality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Worrall
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.