Murray v. Bateman’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Durfee v. Durfee & Canning, Inc. (1948), O'BRIEN v. Dwight (1973)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 John Hetherington & Sons, Ltd. v. William Firth Co. · Dodge v. Anna Jaques Hospital · Lowrie v. Castle · Martin v. Jablonski · Moore v. Rawson
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.
““Good will is generally understood - to mean the advantage that accrues to a business on account of its name, location and reputation, which tends to enable it to retain the patronage of its old customers.” Murray v. Bateman, 315 Mass. 113 , 51 N.E.2d 954 , at page 955.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barron v. Koenig
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.