Parson v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard, Inc. v. Rosenthal (1945), Merrill v. Penasco Lumber Co. (1922)
33 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · Powers v. Hotel Bond Co. · Kennerson v. Thames Towboat Co. · Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Collard's Administrator · Pinel v. Rapid Railway System
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A wife who had been turned out of her home by her husband and had not been living with or supported by him for eleven years before his death, but who had made endeavors to obtain support, was held to be in part dependent upon her husband’s earnings at the time of his death within the meaning of Schedule I (1) (a) (ii) of the Act of 1906.””
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.