Murphy v. McIntosh’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2009
3 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 Packard Norfolk, Inc. v. Miller · Poe v. Voss · Blackman v. Howes · Garrett v. Finch · Hawkins v. Sydnor
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.
““Johnston’s answers contained only a part of the truth; while his principal, Miss Murphy, was fully aware of the whole truth. His answers dealt with matters of fact, not matters of opinion, and were calculated to mislead the [purchasers] and deter them from making an independent investigation. Whenever the [purchasers’] suspicions were aroused, they were quieted by the assurance of Johnston.” 199 Va., at p. 261 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Horner v. Ahern
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.