Murphy v. Dell Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 1 Conn. App. 680 - New England Whalers Hockey Club v. Nair (1984), Behlman v. Universal Travel Agency, Inc. (1985)
2 district · 25 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 Pandolphe's Auto Parts, Inc. v. Town of Manchester · Stelco Industries, Inc. v. Cohen · Diamond Match Co. v. Crute · Klepp Wood Flooring Corporation v. Butterfield · Frederick Raff Co. v. Goeben
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is settled that where an agent contracts in his own name, without disclosing his representative capacity, the agent is personally liable on the contract.”
6 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.