Jacobs v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Matthews v. Matthews (1946), Box v. Box (1950)
26 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 McArthur v. Scott · Litchfield v. Crane · Ussery v. Darrow · Anderson v. Steiner · Carwile v. Crump
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Probably the appropriate way to reach [the standing] issue in a preliminary proceeding would be a motion to vacate the order of removal and to retransfer the administration to the probate court, alleging that petitioner was not interested in the estate as she claims. And on that motion, the question of fact could be tried [in the circuit court]."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'All persons interested in a suit in equity, and whose rights will be directly affected by the decree, must be made parties, unless they are too numerous, or some of them are beyond the reach of process, or not in being; and in every case there must be such parties before the court as to insure a fair trial of the issue in behalf of all.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is apparent that the real issue in the case is whether [Murphy] was the common law wife of [the] decedent. If she was not, she cannot in the first place cause a removal of the estate [to the circuit court].”
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.