Underhill v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Bankers' Fire Marine Ins. Co. v. Sloss (1934), Alsbrook v. Commonwealth (1932)
25 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The power of a court to punish for contempt is as old as the common law and inherent in every court. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.