Gray v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2023
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Reed v. Real Detective Publishing Co. · 228 Mo. App. 727 - Coffman v. Shell Petroleum Corp. · Kearney v. Mallon Suburban Motors, Inc. · Burg v. Knox · Martin v. Derenbecker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether to the person's rights or to his body.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Causes of action for personal injuries, other than those resulting in death, whether such injuries be to the health or to the person of the injured party, shall not abate by reason of his death, ... but in case of the death of [the injured party] such cause of action shall survive to the personal representative of such injured party....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roedder v. Callis“sections 537.010 and 537.020 shall not extend to actions for slander, libel, assault and battery and false imprisonment”). . A different procedure applies when the only damages sought are those of the deceased defendant's insurer. See § 537.021.1(2). That situation does not exist here and is not discussed further. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellison v. Fry
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.