Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 1989
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ramsay v. Sims · Coffee v. Coffee · Varble v. Hughes
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.
“Where parties separate and by contract, as here, settle the right of their minor children for support and maintenance and such contract is approved by the trial judge and made a part of a final divorce decree, the courts will enforce the contract as made by them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClain v. McClain
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.