Gray v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
4
states following
October 2007
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gibson v. Brewer · Farm Bureau Town & Country Insurance Co. v. Angoff · Johnson v. Kraft General Foods, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fall within the scope of employment of a priest, and the Diocese cannot be held liable under an agency theory”
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.