Murphy v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2019
18 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 Eagle v. Oldham · Shepard v. Union & New Haven Trust Co. · Ellsworth v. Arkansas Natl. Bk., Trustee · Union National Bank v. Kirby
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the construction of an instrument creating a trust, the same rules prevail whether such instrument be a deed or a will. The true rule is that the construction never begitis until uncertainty of sense is pretty clearly apparent. (Citing 26 R.C.L. 1552.) (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.