State v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Courchesne (2010), 209 Wis. 2d 112 - State Ex Rel. Angela M.W. v. Kruzicki (1997)
61 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court · State v. Sammons · State v. Dickinson · 125 Ill. 2d 267 - Stallman v. Youngquist · 75 Cal. App. 3d 214 - Reyes v. Superior Court
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person, who is the parent, guardian, custodian, person having custody or control, or person in loco parentis of a child under eighteen years of age or a mentally or physically handicapped child under twenty-one years of age, shall create a substantial risk to the health or safety of the child, by violating a duty of care, protection, or support. * * *””
2 later decisions 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.