Gray v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1980
3 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 Green v. State · Anshutz v. Louisville Railway Co. · Lilly v. O'Brien · Dignowity v. Fly · Faulkner v. Faulkner
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What convinces us that the ‘final judgment’ referred to in § 344 means the final judgment in the circuit court, is that new. trials are not. favqred by courts and it is important that litigation be brought to an end- Affirmance of a judgment obviously does not make it less than final. It confirms finality.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ockerman v. Wise
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.