Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably In Re the Custody of Sauls (1967), Richardson v. Richardson (1964)
30 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 Goodyear v. Goodyear · Dellinger v. Bollinger · Cox v. Cox · Bailey v. Bailey · Harmon v. Harmon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]efore judgment, on the application of either party, when he establishes an apparent right to property which is the subject of the action and in the possession of an adverse party, and the property or its rents and profits are in danger of being lost, or materially injured or impaired; ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Liggett“where there is no other safe or expedient remedy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardin v. Lewis
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.