Murphy v. State Roads Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Johnson v. Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. (1947), Albert v. Public Service Commission (1956)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 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 Witsen v. Gutman · Wiley v. Board of County School Commissioners · Steuart v. Mayor of Baltimore · Huffman v. State Roads Commission · Hendler Creamery Co. v. Lillich
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"As a necessary incident of the authority to determine the location of roads to be incorporated in the general system, the commission is given the power of considering different roads and routes, and of selecting those which will in their judgment best serve the public interest, and ordinarily the only limitation upon the discretion, thus given, is that it shall be fairly and honestly exercised, and that private property may not be taken for an improvement for which there is no public necessity. Within those limits, whether wise or unwise, the decision of the commission is conclusive and not subject to judicial review." (citing authorities) Id. at 14 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.