Murphy v. Barnard’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Culhane v. Aurora Loan Services (2013), Marcuzzo v. Bank of the West (2015)
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Smith v. Livingston · National Bank of North America v. Kirby · Atlas National Bank v. Savery · Morris v. Bacon · Strong v. Jackson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In that transaction the mortgagor who gives his negotiable note, rather than a bond or some non-negotiable obligation, brings himself voluntarily within the rules which govern the payment of negotiable paper, and in effect agrees that he will be bound by them, and that the mortgage shall stand as security for the obligation that he will not only pay the note, but make effectual payment to the party entitled to claim under these rules.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Jarman
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.