Murphy v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1978
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Duncan · Trice Production Company v. Dutton Drilling Company · Texas Real Estate Commission v. Bentley · Thamert v. Carter
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The theory on which the judgment in this case was rendered is well stated in 1 Am.Jur.2d Accounts and Accounting, § 63, pp. 437-438, as follows: ‘Where an action for an accounting is brought in a court of general equitable jurisdiction the court has a duty, upon finding that an accounting is proper, to conduct the accounting, to try all the issues, administer full relief to the parties, and grant a judgment for the balance found due * * *.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. Lambert
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.