Gray v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It may be urged that the need for the appointment of a trustee and the revivor of a judgment is as great where one is confined in the penitentiary pending his execution as though he were sentenced to the term of one or more years as punishment. That may be so, but if the statute, strictly construed, does not so provide, the discussion, so far as we are concerned, must end. The question is one for the legislature, and not the courts.” ( 70 Kan. 433 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cooper v. Greenleaf

2. ““Being in derogation of the natural rights of persons to hold and manage their own property, the sections must be striotly construed, and their provisions extend no farther than the clear import of their terms required. In this, they are analogous to the case where a spendthrift is deprived by statutory proceedings of his natural right to manage his own property.” (p. 432.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State ex rel. Smith v. Gillen