Gray v. Ahern’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2011
4 district · 16 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 Sullivan v. John R. White & Son, Inc. · Robinson v. Merchants' & Miners' Transportation Co. · Thompson v. Hoxsie · Atwood v. Rhode-Island Agricultural Bank · McAuslan v. Union Trust Company
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if a plaintiff, having been ordered to furnish surety, fails to do so, either from choice, or from willful neglect to use proper effort, his failure is to be deemed a voluntary default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Mordowanec“does not apply in favor of a plaintiff who abandons an action for no other cause than his own will or choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“intentionally and voluntarily, discontinued her action”
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.