Murphy's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably Derinza's Case (1918), Bassett v. Stratford Lumber Co. (1926)
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 18 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 McNicol's Case · Kelley's Case
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To hold that dependent’s right to compensation is a vested right, which passes to a legatee by will and in case of intestacy goes to the dependent’s next of kin, would be to put upon the insurer a burden not cailed for by the object which the act was passed to attain. In addition, the compensation awarded the dependent would go in that case to persons altogether outside the class contemplated by the act. So construed, the act would or might enrich strangers in place of doing justice to the family and next of kin of an employé killed in the course of and so as an incident to the business in which he was employed.””
2 later decisions 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.