448 Pa. Super. 456 - Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2026
14 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 Sprague v. Casey · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Robinson v. Robinson · Wilson v. King of Prussia Enterprises, Inc. · 402 Pa. Super. 324 - Garcia v. Savage · Cohn v. Weiss Et Ux.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a) the extent to which the injured party will be deprived of the benefit which he reasonably expected; b) the extent to which the injured party can be adequately compensated for that part of the benefit of which he will be deprived; c) the extent to which the party failing to perform or to offer to perform will suffer forfeiture; d) the likelihood that the party failing to perform or offer to perform will cure his failure, taking account of all the circumstances including any reasonable assurances; e) the extent to which the behavior of the party failing to perform or offer to perform comports with standards of good faith and fair dealing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether a breach is so substantial as to justify an injured party’s regarding the whole transaction as at an end “is a question of degree; and must be answered by weighing the consequences in the actual custom of men in the performance of contracts similar to the one that is involved in the specific case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that a purchaser's default in making payments under a land contract may be waived either by express agreement or by the words or conduct of the seller.”
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.