Murphy v. Read’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
4
states following
July 1968
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kitchel v. Gallagher · Snabel v. Barber · Meaney v. Portland Electric Power Co. · Archer v. Gage · Scarpelli v. Portland Electric Power 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a case where no negligence is charged on the part of plaintiff leaving as the only issue that of alleged negligence on defendant’s part, an instruction on unavoidable accident is merely a repetition of the charge that if no negligence has been proven on defendant’s part proximately causing the accident the verdict of the jury should be for the defendant.””
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.