Murphy v. Nowak’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 1958 · most notably Steen v. Modern Woodmen of America (1920), Stevenot v. Norberg (1954)
3 federal appellate · 50 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 Martin v. Stubbings · Tyler v. Odd Fellows' Mutual Relief Ass'n · Fullenwider v. Supreme Council of Royal League · Schonfield v. Turner · Norwegian Old People's Home Society v. Wilson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Payments' of death benefits shall only be paid to the families, heirs, blood-relations, affianced husband or affianced wife of, or to persons dependent upon, the member.” (Hurd’s Rev. Stat. 111. [1908] p. 1265.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A dependent, as the term- is used in reference to these benevolent- associations, is one who is sustained by another or relies for support upon the aid of another.” (Page 307.)”
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.