Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Brown v. Brown (1985), Morrill v. Tong (1983)
25 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
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 3901 (Servicemembers Civil Relief Act)
Relies on People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Sampsell v. Superior Court · Hersey v. Hersey · Heard v. Heard · Henderson v. Henderson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“emotional and physical reactions in the child commensurate with these distresses”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heine v. Heine
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.