Pierce v. Murphree’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2005
16 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 Formby v. Williams · Butts v. Cooper · Talley v. Talley · Patton v. Beecher · Nelson v. Shelby Manufacturing & Improvement Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the first place, the record is voluminous and is one of the most confusing we have examined. The evidence or the testimony of the parties and their witnesses is in hopeless conflict. Some of the witnesses flatly contradict themselves.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphree v. Henson““Under the rules of our cases a parol, executory agreement for the purchase of an interest in land is invalid under the statute of frauds and this applies to partnerships and joint adventures, [cases cited].” Id. at 27 , 145 So.2d at 214 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“violation of a parol trust agreement or its subsequent repudiation is not of itself that character of fraud which will suffice to sustain the trust.”
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.