Gregley v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1979
20 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Illegitimate children shall be capable of inheriting and transmitting the inheritance, on the part of their mother, in like maimer as if they had been legitimate of their mother.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brann v. Bell
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.