Murphy v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1931
12 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 William Gardner v. John a Collins et al. · Martindale v. Martindale · Leard v. Leard · Ogle v. Stoops · Frantz v. Harrow
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining from whom an estate came, the rule is to trace the title back to the person last seized. It is the immediate, and not the remote, ancestor from whom the descent comes. This court, in the case of Smith v. Smith, supra, in speaking of the descent of lands, that the widow had inherited from her husband, to her child, held that the widow was the ancestor, and that no fair construction of our statute of descents would cast any portion of the estate upon those who were not of her blood. This decision is abundantly supported by authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Kindred of the half-blood shall inherit equally with those of the whole blood; but if the estate shall have, come to the intestate by gift, devise or descent from any ancestor, those only who are of the blood of such ancestor shall inherit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If a husband die testate or intestate, leaving a widow, one-third of his real estate shall descend to her in fee-simple, free from all demands of creditors.””
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.