Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1953 · most notably United States v. Stevens (1938), Coe v. Winchester (1934)
30 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Howe v. Watson · Krell v. Codman · Tracy v. Ginzberg · Putnam v. Bolster · Williams v. Inhabitants of Brookline
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Partnership agreements which provide for the conduct of the business after the death of one or more of the partners, and for the disposition of the interest of partners in the partnership in such event, are frequent * * * (and) when fairly made, without any illegal purpose and without the intent to evade the statute of wills, they are (valid and) not open to objection. Contracts respecting the disposition of one’s property after death are not uncommon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. More v. Carnes“Contracts respecting the disposition of one’s property after death, are not uncommon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.