Are there suttas that recommend a specific order of the buddhist practices? Every now and then i see claims that a particular practice of the noble eightfold path (or alternatively, the threefold division) builds on a specific preceding practice. 

Two examples of claims (right or wrong) is that right view is a necessary foundation for the other seven practices, or that panna comes last building on the two other thirds in the threefold division.

I am interested in suttas as sources for claims like this, so my question is what specific references there are for describing this type of order of the practices. (Please note that i'm primarily asking for references, and not personal opinions).
Of those, right view is the forerunner. And how is right view the
  forerunner? In one of right view, right resolve comes into being. In
  one of right resolve, right speech comes into being. In one of right
  speech, right action... In one of right action, right livelihood... In
  one of right livelihood, right effort... In one of right effort, right
  mindfulness... In one of right mindfulness, right concentration... In
  one of right concentration, right knowledge... In one of right
  knowledge, right release comes into being. Thus the learner is endowed
  with eight factors, and the arahant with ten.
  
  MN 117
  
  
  
  Bhikkhus, this is the forerunner and precursor of the rising of the
  sun, that is, the dawn. So too, bhikkhus, for a bhikkhu this is the
  forerunner and precursor of the breakthrough to the Four Noble Truths
  as the really are, that is, right view.
  
  SN 56.37
  
  
  
  Mendicants, the dawn is the forerunner and precursor of the sunrise.
  
  In the same way right view is the forerunner and precursor of skillful
  qualities.
  
  Right view gives rise to right thought. Right thought gives rise to
  right speech. Right speech gives rise to right action. Right action
  gives rise to right livelihood. Right livelihood gives rise to right
  effort. Right effort gives rise to right mindfulness. Right
  mindfulness gives rise to right immersion. Right immersion gives rise
  to right knowledge. Right knowledge gives rise to right freedom.
  
  AN 10.121