Murphy v. Traynor’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2001
23 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 Tenement House Department v. . McDevitt · McNeece v. Wood · Commonwealth v. Patterson · Commonwealth v. Hayes · Hughes v. Pallas
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The verb ‘use’ or ‘used’ has two meanings recognized by all lexicographers and unconsciously differentiated in common speech. 1. - To employ or be employed or occupied. In this sense the word would include a single isolated instance of use. 2. - To practice customarily or (in the case of a place or thing) to be the subject of customary practice, employment or occupation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calkins v. Albi
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.