Gray v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Bronson (1993), State v. Lenz (1988)
28 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 Barwin v. Reidy · Raymond v. Cotner · State Ex Rel. Cochrane v. Blanco · Kane v. United Catholic Social Services of Omaha, Inc. · Batt Ex Rel. Batt v. Nebraska Children's Home Society
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“payment of a consideration for the relinquishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]fter a decree of adoption has been entered, the natural parents... shall be relieved of all parental duties toward and all responsibilities for such child ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here remains the question that is present in every habeas corpus case involving child custody: the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCormick v. State
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.