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← 2007 MT 140 - Murphy Homes, Inc. v. Muller

Murphy Homes, Inc. v. Muller’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
2
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Jacobsen v. Allstate Insurance (2009), State v. Dethman (2010)

46 state decisions

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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 Hickman v. Taylor · Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · V-1 Oil Co. v. Gerber · Seltzer v. Morton · Schuff v. A.T. Klemens & Son

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he party assigning error to a district court's instruction must show prejudice in order to prevail, and prejudice will not be found if the jury instructions in their entirety state the applicable law of the case.”
    1 later decision 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.