Grayson v. Stith’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Vance v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n (1999), Federal Tax Co. v. Board of Com'rs (1940)
1 district · 25 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 Holt v. Holt · Simmons v. Harris · McLaughlin v. Nettleton · Bearman v. Bracken · Smith v. Smith
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proceedings to vacate or modify the judgment or order, on the grounds mentioned in subdivisions four, five, six, seven, eight and nine •of the second preceding section, shall be by petition, verified by affidavit, setting forth the judgment or order, the grounds to vacate or modify it, and the defense to the action, if the party applying was defendant. On such petition, - a summons shall issue and be served as in the commencement of an action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Baskett““The act of an attorney in abandoning his client’s case without notice to the latter, and in permitting a default judgment to be rendered against his client without his knowledge or consent, constitutes unavoidable casualty or misfortune under the seventh subdivision of section 556, O.S.1931 (12 Okl.St.Ann. § 1031, subd. 7).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maxey v. Welch““Proceedings under section 558 and the seventh subdivision of section 556, O.S.1931 (12 Okl.St.Ann. § 1033 and § 1031, subd. 7), are in the nature of an independent action and may be instituted in the action in which the judgment sought to be vacated is rendered, or by an independent action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zipperle v. Smith
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.