Gray v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 1995 · most notably 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State (1981), State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy (1939)
43 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 State Ex Rel. Montgomery v. Merrill · State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Allen · First Nat. Bank v. Smith · Polytinsky v. Johnston · Byrd v. State Ex Rel. Colquett
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““So we would not be understood as saying the publication of the proposed bill in full would make a provision thereof matter of substance which would otherwise be considered mere matter of detail.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilkins v. Woolf“the local public shall be advised of the substance of the proposed law, of its characteristic and essential provisions, of its most important features.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foreman v. Davis
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.