Ex parte Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 1962 · most notably Ingalls Iron Works Co. v. Ingalls Foundation (1957), Ebersbach Construction Co. v. Charles Ringling Co. (1930)
2 district · 37 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 Bronson et al. v. La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company et al. · Ex parte Printup · Renfro Bros. v. Goetter, Weil & Co. · Piedmont & Arlington Life Insurance v. Maury · Stich v. Dickinson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our own court lias recognized the right of intervention, but held that a stranger could not intervene for the purpose of defeating the entire suit, nor for the purpose of litigating with the complainant his right or title to any relief. * * * ” Renfro Bros. v. Goetter, Weil & Co., 78 Ala. 311 , 313-315; Curtis v. Curtis, 180 Ala. 64 , 60 South. 167 , 168; Wightman v. Yaryan Co., 217 Ill. 371 , 380, 75 N. E. 502 , 108 Am. St. Rep. 258 , 3 Ann. Cas. 1089; Cincinnati Equipment Co. v. Degnan, 184 Fed. 834 , 841, 107 C. C. A. 158 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hopkins v. Lancaster““ * * * The petition for intervention is then filed, on which the court examines the petition and answer, and such testimony, by affidavit or otherwise, as may be produced, and determines the question as to whether the petitioner shall be allowed to intervene and become a party to the suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.