Spencer v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1977
5 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 C. F. Lytle Co. v. Preston · Fair v. Mayfield Feed & Grain Co. · Uvalde Const. Co. v. Waggoner · Lusk v. Onstott
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared David L. Tisinger, who on oath stated that he is attorney for the plaintiff in the above-mentioned cause and states as attorney that the foregoing controverting affidavit and the statements contained therein are true and correct.””
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.