Lucas v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Leggett v. Missouri State Life Insurance Company (1960), Fleming v. Moore Brothers Realty Co. (1952)
38 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. · A. J. Meyer & Co. v. Unemployment Compensation Commission · Morey Engineering & Construction Co. v. St. Louis Artificial Ice Rink Co. · State v. Berry, 24233 (mo.banc 1923) · Missouri Real Estate & Loan Co. v. Gibson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`take[s] away or impair[s] vested rights acquired under existing laws, or create[s] a new obligation, impose[s] a new duty, or attach[es] a new disability in respect to transactions or considerations already past. '”
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.