Murray v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
6 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Flanagan v. Mount Eden General Hospital (1969), Wyler v. Tripi (1971)
6 district · 36 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 John Wilcox and Thomas Wilcox v. The Executors of Kemp Plummer · Bodne v. Austin · Capucci v. Barone · Harding v. Liberty Hospital Corp. · Rush v. Atlanta Railway & Power Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The negligent act in the instant case was the omission to remove • the sponge when the wound was closed, and this occurred more than three years before the action was brought. Even if there were negligence in the after treatment on the part of the defendant in failing to detect the presence of a foreign substance in the abdominal cavity, more than three years elapsed after the last examination by him before the institution of the action. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hotelling v. Walther
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.