Murphy v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Resolution Trust Corporation v. Mustang Partners (1991), Bisno v. Sax (1959)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Hedges v. Dixon County · Graf v. Hope Building Corp. · Noyes v. . Anderson · Ferris v. Ferris · Malcolm v. . Allen
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The foreclosure of a mortgage is equitable in its nature, although based on legal rights, and it is the province of a court of equity to see to it that a party invoking its relief shall have dealt fairly, before relief is given.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“where there has been a technical default due to a mistake or mere venial inattention and of no damage to the mortgage security or prejudice to the mortgagees.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““There is no undeviating principle that equity shall enforce the covenants of a mortgage, unmoved by an appeal ad misericordiam, however urgent or affecting. The development of the jurisdiction of the chancery is lined with historic monuments that point another course.... One could give many illustrations of the traditional and unchallenged exercise of a like dispensing power. It runs through the whole rubric of accident and mistake. Equity follows the law, but not slavishly nor always.” See Murphy v. Fox, 278 P.2d 820, 825 (Okl.1955), which quoted Cardoza in Graf v. Hope Building Corp., 254 N.Y. 1 , 171 N.E. 884 , 70 A.L.R. 984, 988 .”
2 later decisions 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.