Murphy v. Hanlon’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. (1975), Durfee v. Durfee & Canning, Inc. (1948)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Geddes v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co. · Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc. · Berry v. Kyes · von Arnim v. American Tube Works · Fillebrown v. Hayward
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“standard of complete good faith plus the exercise of reasonable intelligence.”
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.