Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1993
12 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 Kentland Coal & Coke Co. v. Keen · Larmon v. Larmon · 91 Ind. App. 574 - Abernathy v. McCoy · Thurmond v. Thurmond · Wills v. Wills
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any one of my said nieces or nephews die either before or after my death, and leave no living descendants his interest shall vest in those living under the same conditions as above. Should any one of said children die leaving descendants the said descendants shall take the place of its parents, but no fee shall vest in any descendant until after all of my nieces and nephews above named shall die, when the event happens the title to said real estate shall vest in the descendants of my said nieces and nephews according to their legal rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkinson v. Kish““The statute applies only to the suspension of the ultimate vesting of an estate and not to any restraint upon the right or power of alienation of an estate already vested, or which is or but for the restraint would be indefeasible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robertson v. Simmons
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.