Murphy v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 394th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Hooks v. Bridgewater · Bocquet v. Herring · " MOORE" BURGER, INC. v. Phillips Petroleum Company · F. J. Harrison & Co. v. Boring · Nagle v. Nagle
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The owner of land may create an easement by a parol agreement or representation which has been so acted on by others as to create an estoppel en pais. As where he has by parol agreement granted a right to such easement in his land, upon the faith of which the other party has expended moneys which will be lost and valueless if the right to enjoy such easement is revoked, equity has enjoined the owner of the first estate from preventing the use of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Cockrell
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.