Murphy v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1932
20 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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.
““A person who simply lays facts before a magistrate, and leaves all further action to the unbiased and unsolicited conduct of the latter, is not liable in trespass for false imprisonment, unless he takes some part in furthering the arrest or urging the detention.””
2 later decisions 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.