15 E.H. Smith 301 - Murray v. . Dwight’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 1934 · most notably Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson (1909), Driscoll v. Towle (1902)
4 federal appellate · 42 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 Crispin v. . Babbitt · Wyllie v. . Palmer · Hasty v. Sears
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have only to consider in wliose employment tlie man was at the time when the acts complained of were done, in this sense, that by the employer is meant the person who has a right at the moment to control the doing of the act.” ‘”
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.