Murrell v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1935
11 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 Glaser v. Rothschild · Shultes v. . Sickles · Eckhard v. St. Louis Transit Co. · Schofield v. Wood · McKenzie v. United Railways Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . and it could not be said with any semblance of reason that the boy, Oliver, at the time he went under this platform was in an ‘ out-of-the-way place’ wholly disconnected from the street fair; nor can it reasonably be said that is to be compared to the curiosity that would lead one to go into an out-of-the-way place such as a garret to gratify a mere curiosity or to seek the basement of a house for a like purpose. It is apparent upon the slightest examination that the plaintiffs’ child, considering his age and surroundings —a child only eight years of age with those childish instincts characteristic of such a boy — in going under the platform, under the facts disclosed in this record, was only going where a child of Ms age would naturally have gone and in a place where those in charge of the fair grounds who had erected this platform could well have anticipated children would go and in which, during the day, cMldren were going.””
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.