Gray v. Shelby’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Anglin v. Cisco Mortgage Loan Co. (1940), Cove Investments, Inc. v. Manges (1980)
34 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.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It matters not what the language used or the form imparted to the instrument, if it was intended to secure the payment of money it must be construed as a mortgage.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hume v. Le Compte · Shelp v. Decker
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.