Goldenberg v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
108 U.S. 162 · 1883
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Harris v. Garner (2000), Embrey v. Jemison (1889)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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 Arthur v. Lahey
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A suit is brought when in law it is commenced.”
5 later decisions 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.