Parker v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2007
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Hayes v. O'Brien · Watkins v. Robertson · Cummins v. Beavers · Berry v. Wortham · Van Dyke v. Norfolk Southern Railroad
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled in Virginia, that, in the absence of statute destroying the effect of a seal, an option contract under seal must be regarded as made upon a sufficient consideration, and no proof to the contrary will be received. Watkins v. Robertson, 105 Va. 269 , 54 S. E. 33 , 5 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1194, 115 Am. St. Rep. 880 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Wayave
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.