Murphy Homes, Inc. v. Muller’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
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
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.
“[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 majoritye.g. State v. D. Iverson
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.