Murray v. Wyatt’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 1974 · most notably Watters Ex Rel. Watters v. Parrish (1960), Tart v. Register (1962)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 MacClure v. Accident & Casualty Insurance Co. · Hunt v. Wooten · Atkins v. White Transportation Co. · Atkins v. . Transportation Co. · Singletary v. Nixon
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view of the evidence that both Murray and the [Jones] truck were in fact directly behind him, it was for the jury, upon all the evidence, to say whether Boyle failed to use due care in backing his truck without first exercising due care to ascertain whether he could do so without striking Murray or the Jones truck. * * * There is little difference between backing a truck when you cannot see what is behind you and in driving forward when blindfolded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bennett v. Young
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.