Murphy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2017
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 Taylor v. United States · Willard Dairy Corp. v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Alvado v. General Motors Corp. · 111 F. Supp. 945 - Fruhauf Southwest Garment Co. v. United States · Christie v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) One side involuntarily accepted the terms of another. (2) Circumstances permitted no other alternative. (3) The circumstances were the result of coercive acts of the opposite party.”
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.