Gray v. Blight’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.2d 696 · 1940
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 1977
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. May Taylor W · Chicago Ry Co v. Sturm · Ormsby v. Executors · Baltimore Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company v. United States
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether a claim for damages for a tort survives the death of the tort feasor or of the injured person is determined by the law of the place of wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butcher v. Maffeo
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.