Murrell v. Industrial Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably 145 Ill. 2d 166 - Harris Trust & Savings Bank v. Donovan (1991), Faber v. Industrial Commission (1933)
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 McDonald v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R'y Co. · Marshall v. Wabash Railroad · Blacklaws v. Milne · Johnstone v. Taliaferro
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The workmen’s compensation act mentions only children by which is ordinarily meant legitimate children, and there is no word in the act which indicates that the legislature used the word in any other than its ordinary sense. Indeed, in paragraph (5) the words ‘or other lineal heir,’ used in connection with the words ‘any widow, child, parent, grandparent/ seem to imply that the child, parent, grandparent mentioned must be a lineal heir, — that is, that the relation must be legitimate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The words of a statute will be construed in their ordinary sense and with the meaning commonly attributed to them under such construction unless such construction will defeat the manifest intention of the legislature. When the words have a well-settled meaning through judicial interpretation, they must be understood, when used in a statute, to have that meaning unless a different meaning is unmistakably indicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... widow, child, parent, grandparent or other lineal heir ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.