Craft v. Craft’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2010
18 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 Southwest Weather Research, Inc. v. Jones · Hastings Oil Co. v. Texas Co. · State v. Mauritz-Wells Co. · Henderson v. Shell Oil Co., Inc. · Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Village Mills Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a trial judge may occasionally abuse his discretion in issuing an interlocutory order, the harm is rarely, if ever, permanent, and the best remedy is an early trial on the merits. In absence of express language making such an order appealable, we cannot believe that the Legislature intended to impose this additional burden on [spouses] and appellate courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Querner v. Querner“Temporary orders under this section are governed by the rules governing temporary restraining orders and temporary injunctions in civil cases generally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Querner v. Querner“with full knowledge of all decisions on the subject matter of the legislation rendered before its enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanchez v. Schindler
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.