Murphy v. Carlin’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 1988 · most notably Ralls v. Johnson (1917), Burnes v. Burnes (1905)
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Colton v. Colton · Hall v. Stephens · Warner v. Bates · Small v. Field · Knox v. Knox
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true intent and meaning of the testator can be best ascertained by the courts and those concerned in the execution of wills by putting themselves, so far as may be, in the place of the testator, and reading all his directions therein contained in the light of his environment at the time it was made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross v. Cross““I give, devise, bequeath unto my husband, William Ferguson, all of my real and personal estate, absolutely. * * * I make this bequest in the full faith that my husband will properly provide for the two children of my deceased brother, Simeon, whom we have undertaken to raise and educate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnes v. Burnes““It is my will and desire that my wife continue to provide for the care, comfort, and education of Thomas Joseph Murphy now aged nearly five years, * * * and to make suitable provision for him in case 'of her death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnes v. Burnes
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.