Murphy v. . Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1972
24 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 Smith v. . Edwards · Garnsey v. . Rogers
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But here there was part performance sufficient to take the agreement out of the statute of frauds. The agreement alleged in the complaint had been substantially kept by all the parties thereto until the land became vested in the defendant Mary, and she had thus been largely benefited by the agreement, and had received all the fruits thereof which were to come to her. She could not, therefore, urge against this agreement that it was void under the statute of frauds, because not in writing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kincaid v. Kincaid““"The absolute power of alienation is not suspended, because there were at all times persons in being who could convey an absolute fee in possession. All the brothers and sisters, uniting with the plaintiff, could at any time have conveyed a perfect, indefeasible title to the real estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Torpy v. Betts
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.