Murphy v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably McGee v. Allen (1936), Robinson v. Muir (1907)
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 Boggs v. Merced Mining Co. · Olcott v. Bynum · Breeze v. Brooks · Beckett v. Selover · Lehman v. Lewis
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.
“John Brooks to his brother and codefendant, Patrick Brooks, was fraudulent and void, and that Patrick took the legal title thereunder in trust for John and his successors in interest, and that he holds the same in trust for the plaintiffs, who were creditors of John and purchasers at a sheriff’s sale of the land conveyed, under a judgment in their favor against John. The court said: ‘From the findings, it plainly appears that John had nothing except a naked legal title. Patrick had paid all the money for the land, and John, therefore, held it in trust for him.’ John ‘never, so far as Patrick knew, asserted any title adverse to Patrick’s,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and Patrick’s right to assert his claim thereto was not barred, and”
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.