Murphree v. Henson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Armstrong v. Security Insurance Group (1973), 342 So. 2d 347 - First Nat. Bank of Birmingham v. Culberson (1977)
32 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 Craig v. Root · Beeland Wholesale Co. v. Kaufman · Lightsey v. Stone · Anderson v. State · Lott v. Keith
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . Notice of a claim of interest in real property can be inferred from knowledge of facts sufficient to put a reasonably prudent person on inquiry, which if followed up, would lead to the discovery of the title asserted by some other party. . . ." Murphree v. Henson , supra, 289 Ala. at 352 , 267 So.2d at 425.”
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.