Floyd v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2015
9 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 Fann v. McGuffey · Kotsiris v. Ling · Wimsatt v. Haydon Oil Company · Gray v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · Armes v. Armes
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is an independent cause of action authorized by KRS 411.145(2),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The basic problem with the majority opinion is failure to recognize the true nature of the action for damages for loss of consortium. Such an action is derivative in nature, arising out of and dependent upon the right of the injured spouse to recover. Mrs. Gray's claim arises out of the same personal injury as does her husband's claim. It is from the same cause [bodily injury to her husband]." 657 S.W.2d at 941 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"While Mrs. Gray may have suffered a loss by reason of her husband's injuries, any such injuries are not injuries covered by the MVRA and consequently, not within the two year statute of limitations contained therein." Id. at 939 .”
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.