Murphree v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Sparkman v. Sparkman (1927), Deptartment of Industrial Relations v. Tomlinson (1948)
70 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 McIntyre Lumber & Export Co. v. Jackson Lumber Co. · Hayes v. Hayes · Lee v. Lee · Montgomery v. Hughes · Pinckard v. Cassels
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in the statute cited, which wo think would sustain the contention that such a declaration of adoption would be binding and effective on a court of equity once acquiring jurisdiction of the person of the child, as to its proper custody.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dunn v. Christian“no more important or sacred duty to perform than to look after the proper care and custody of minors coming within their jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. San v. Sen
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.