Gray v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably General Motors Corp. v. Lupica (1989), 15 Va. App. 87 - Doan v. Commonwealth (1992)
30 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 Coe v. Commonwealth · Robinson v. Commonwealth · Smith v. New Dixie Lines, Inc. · Nero v. Ferris · Bartlett v. Kansas City Public Service Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the party against whom the evidence is offered, or his privy, was a party in the former trial; (2) that the issue is substantially the same in the two cases; (3) that the witness who proposes to testify to the former evidence is able to state it with satisfactory correctness; and (4) that a sufficient reason is shown why the original witness is not produced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule [barring evidence of polygraph results] is so firmly embedded in our law that even `[e]vidence of a person's willingness or unwillingness to submit to a polygraph examination is inadmissible.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that it is the party against whom the [prior testimony] is offered. . . whose presence as a party to the earlier action is required.”
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.