Murphy v. Cordle’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Russell v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. (1957), Rockwell International Corp. v. Wilhite (2003)
27 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 United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · American Savings Life Insurance v. Riplinger · Walden v. Jones · Louisville N. R. Co. v. Marshall's Adm'x · Southern-Harlan Coal Company v. Gallaier
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.
““ * * * where there is no antecedent agreement by the jury to be bound by the resulting quotient, or, independently, it adopts an amount equal to the quotient after it is ascertained, the verdict is good.””
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.