Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1986
7 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 Dresser v. Dresser · Smyth v. Smyth · Flaxman v. Flaxman · Collins v. Collins · Hornor v. Hornor
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Extreme cruelty’, as between husband and wife, exists when the conduct of the husband or wife is such that the life or health of the other may be endangered, or when such conduct unjustifiably wounds the mental feelings or so destroys the peace of mind as seriously to impair the health or endanger the life of the other, or is such as utterly destroys the legitimate objectives and aims of matrimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manhart v. Manhart““In determining the amount to be allowed consideration is to be given to the conduct of the parties, and the wife’s condition and means, as well as the husband’s estate and his ability to pay alimony. See Smyth v. Smyth, 198 Okl. 478 , 179 P.2d 920 , and cases therein cited. * * * ””
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.