Murphy v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1970
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 Lessee James Ewing v. Jacob Burnet · Thomas Ellicott v. William Pearl · Jerome Pillow v. Truman Roberts · Hall v. Law · Thompson v. . Burhans
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The general doctrine of the courts in the United States is that, where the occupant or those under whom he claims enter into possession under claim of title, founding such claim upon some written instrument as being a conveyance of the premises in question, and there has been continued occupation of some part of the land included in such conveyance, he or they will be deemed to have been in the adverse possession of the whole of such premises if not in the adverse possession of anyone else.””
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.