Gregory v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Washington Ex Rel. Washington v. Barnes Hospital (1995), Bayne v. Jenkins (1980)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Delay Ex Rel. Delay v. Ward · Quinn v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Stallman v. Robinson · Craddock v. Greenberg Mercantile, Inc. · 112 Ind. App. 347 - Fowler, Admx. v. Norways Sanatorium
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Giving him the freedom of this ward was a `calculated risk', assumed in the light of the modern concepts of treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.