Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1982
9 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 Hiecke v. Hiecke · Beck v. Wallmow · Godfrey v. Thornton · Beranek v. Beranek · Jolitz v. Fintch
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And while there is evidence of the plaintiff’s ill-health, it does not appear that the conduct of the defendant caused it, or rendered it probable that by continuing to live with him it would so affect her health as to make such continuance dangerous, one of which is essential to constitute cause for divorce for cruelty not based on personal violence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leach v. Leach
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.