Murphy v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1923
3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kane v. Gammell
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The justice must also issue a notice to the appellee that such appeal has been taken, which must be executed by personal service on him, his agent, or attorney, five days before the return term of the appeal, and must be returned by the constable to the clerk of the court to which the appeal was taken, on or before the second day of the term.””
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.