Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2006
8 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 Huggins v. Huggins · Richter v. Richter · Maynard v. Maynard · White v. Strickland · Hammond v. Otwell
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.
“Where, as here, a party is being divested of property rights by a proceeding instituted by an opposite party to the cause, nothing short of notice of the proceeding and an opportunity to be heard in opposition thereto will satisfy the due process clauses of the Constitutions of this State... This ought to be and is elementary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gore v. Davis
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.