Gray v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 51 · 1913
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2007 · most notably De Castro v. Board of Commissioners (1944), Alzua v. Johnson (1913)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Field v. Clark · Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Brown · Gardner v. The Collector · Fox v. Haarstick · Ferguson v. . Ross
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... a law that in fact, if not in form, is directed only to a specific spot....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miles v. Shauntee“it is enough that the statute was followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.