Murphy v. Brilliant Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1998
2 district · 18 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 Weiner v. D. A. Schulte, Inc. · Check v. Kaplan · Carey v. Fitzpatrick · Rosenfeld v. Boston Mutual Life Insurance · Hinckley v. Town of Barnstable
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““that money voluntarily paid under a claim of right, with full knowledge of the facts on the part of the one making the payment, cannot be recovered back unless there is fraud or concealment or compulsion by the party enforcing the claim.””
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.