Murphy v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1953
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Carey v. Boyle · Hughes v. Thomas · Wilton v. Mayberry · Watson v. Wilcox · Downer v. Miller
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had the plaintiff been obliged to pay the mortgages to protect some lien of his own on the mortgaged property, or had the debtor agreed to give security on the mortgaged property, or had the plaintiff been a surety for the payment of the mortgage debt, then the right of subrogation would follow.””
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.