Murphy v. Limpp’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Richardson v. State Highway & Transportation Commission (1993), State Ex Rel. Danforth v. Independence Dodge, Inc. (1973)
31 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 Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Graham Paper Company v. Gehner · 4 Wash. 2d 498 - Shelton Hotel Co., Inc. v. Bates · Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. · Smith v. Dirckx
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, an employing unit shall cease to be an employer subject to this Act as of the first day of January of any calendar year, if it files with the commission, prior to the fifth day of January of such year, a written application for termination of coverage, and the commission finds that there were no thirteen different days, each day being in a different week within the preceding calendar year, within which such employing unit, employed eight or more individuals in employment subject to this Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(1) Any employing unit which for some portion of a day, but not necessarily simultaneously, in each of twenty different weeks, whether or not such weeks are or were consecutive within either the current or the preceding calendar year, has or had in employment, eight or more individuals irrespective of whether the same individuals are or were employed in each such day.” “(5) Any employing unit which, having become an employer under paragraph (1), (2) , (3), or (4), has not, under Section 7, ceased to be an employer subject to this Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Employing unit’ means any individual or type of organization . . . which has or subsequent to January 1, 1936, had in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this state.””
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.