Murphy v. Ives’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 district · 153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Sanzone v. Board of Police Commissioners (1991), White v. Burns (1990)
2 district · 153 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 Hoffman v. City of Bristol · Bergner v. State · Bacon v. Town of Rocky Hill · DeLahunta v. City of Waterbury · State v. Kilburn
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a suit against a municipality is not a suit against a sovereign.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“Municipalities do, in certain circumstances, have a governmental immunity from liability.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he state's sovereign right not to be sued without its consent is `not to be diminished by statute, unless a clear intention to that effect on the part of the legislature is disclosed, by the use of express terms or by force of a necessary implication.'”
6 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.