Gray v. Lawlor’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 1979 · most notably Pender v. McKee (1979), Lilly-Brackett Co. v. Sonnemann (1910)
43 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 Lyon v. Robbins · Albright v. Warkentin · Lord v. Hawkins · Brown v. Brown · Bausman v. Tilley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On complying with the conditions of the statute, the moving party secures an absolute right to have the judgment opened, which the court has no discretion to deny.,” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowman v. Bowman
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.