Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 1981 · most notably Clark v. Clark (1966), McSwain v. McSwain (1966)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Loucks v. . Standard Oil Co. · Dawson v. Dawson · Abbott v. Abbott · Precourt v. Driscoll · Sacknoff v. Sacknoff
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The argument fails to distinguish between status and the incidents which local law attaches to the status. The parties are husband and wife. That status they took with them into Maine. But the incidents of that status are those prescribed by the law of the place where transactions take place. As before pointed out, this rule has frequently been applied in tort actions where other relations were involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forbes v. Forbes
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.