Murrah v. Bailes’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably Hartigan v. Hartigan (1961), Wise v. Watson (1970)
31 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 Thomas v. Thomas · Worthington v. Worthington · Coleman v. Coleman · Butler v. Butler · Bridges v. Bridges
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * However much the court will desire to aid the helpless and the afflicted, the court can only establish a liability in aid of the afflicted or the helpless upon some legal or equitable basis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds v. Reynolds
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.