Creavin v. Moloney’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Swate v. Swate (2002), In the Interest of S.A.V. (1992)
28 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Dawson Chemical Co. v. Rohm & Haas Co. · In the Interest of W.E.R. · Ogletree v. Crates
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, the court may exercise status or subject matter jurisdiction over the suit as provided by Subchapter B [Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act] of this chapter, [footnote omitted]. The court may also exercise personal jurisdiction over a person on whom service of citation is required or over the person’s personal representative, although the person is not a resident or domiciliary of this state, if [one of several conditions is satisfied].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even if [the mother] failed to provide copies of medical bills within the 10 day deadline established by the modification order, each parent is obligated to support his or her child during the child's minority and is liable to any other person, including the other parent, who provides necessities for the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re LL“a court decision and court orders and instructions providing for the custody of a child, including visitation rights; it does not include a decision relating to child support or any other monetary obligation of any person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larson v. Dunn
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.