Murphy v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1974
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Provident Institution for Savings in Jersey City v. Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City · Watts v. Sweeney · Robinson v. Rippey · State ex rel. Ely v. Ætna Life Insurance · Cook v. State ex rel. Whitten
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ownership in fee of the real estate (or the mortgage lien) affected by such uses, while a vested right, is not more sacred than the right of the public to appropriate such real estate to such use. When ownership is acquired it is necessarily with the implied understanding that it is subject to this paramount right of the public.””
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.