Murphy v. Barron’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Pearson v. Koster (2012), State Ex Rel. McCaskill v. Hall (1930)
49 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 Last Chance Min Co v. Tyler Min Co · Sarah v. Read · Murphy v. Barron · Brack v. Boyd · Cox v. Barker
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In case directions are given it is its (the trial court’s) duty ‘to do those things and those things only which it is directed to do by the mandate contained in the judgment.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Denny v. Guyton
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.