Murrell v. Western Union Tel. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.2d 787 · 1947
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 601 · 47 U.S.C. § 8
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The United States Code was not enacted' as a statute,, nor can it be construed as such. It is only a prima facie statement of the statute law. The statutes collected in it. did not change their meaning nor acquire any new force ■by their inclusion. If construction is necessary, recourse must ;be had to the original statutes themselves.”
2 later decisions 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.