Central Surety & Ins. v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.2d 117 · 1939
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1973 · most notably Sampson v. Channell (1940), Farr Co. v. Union Pac. R. Co. (1939)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Gunning v. Cooley · A. B. Small Co. v. Lamborn & Co. · Sponable v. Thomas · Houdashelt v. State Highway Commission · Warren v. Fink
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.
“But contradictions and conflicts of evidence are for the jury, and where the evidence and the inferences fairly deducible from it are such that reasonable minds may honestly draw different conclusions from them, the question is not one of law but of fact to be determined by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.