Murphy v. John Hofman Co.’s Empirical Analysis
211 U.S. 562 · 1909
Citation profile
184 federal appellate · 95 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 485 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1999 · most notably Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Co. (1931), Straton v. New (1931)
184 federal appellate · 95 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 United States v. Lee · Fred Bardes v. First National Bank of Hawarden Iowa · Covell v. Heyman · Claflin v. Houseman · Wabash Railroad Company v. Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University
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 485 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a court of competent jurisdiction has taken property into its possession, through its officers, the property is thereby withdrawn from the jurisdiction of all other courts.””
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berman v. Smith · In re MacDougall
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.