Craig v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably S.N.E. v. R.L.B. (1985), Lone Wolf v. Lone Wolf (1987)
35 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 Lustig v. United States · Albright v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fetters · Veazey v. Veazey · Burks v. Burks · Deivert v. Oseira
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the capability and desire of each parent to meet”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“discretion to best respond to the myriad of factual settings which will invariably arise in custody matters, at all times cognizant that it is the best interests of the child which is the paramount consideration. Though maintaining sibling relationships will typically be in the best interests of the child, cases will undoubtedly arise where the best interests of the chid dictate otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e cannot countenance the court's reference to the mother's sexual conduct. Whether intended as condemnatory of the mother's sexual conduct or only as indicative of the mother's unstable life style, our concern is that the mother's bearing of children out of wedlock or her instability in terms of relationships should be determinative only were such conduct to adversely affect the child or the mother's parenting abilities. As we stated in Britt v. Britt, "evidence of the life-style, habits, or character of a custody claimant is relevant only to the extent that it may be shown to affect the person's relationship to the child. " 567 P.2d 308, 311 (Alaska 1977). [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roeh v. Roeh
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.