Herrington v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2006
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Colvin v. Blanchard · Mid-Continent Life Ins. Co. v. Goforth · Mid-America Corporation v. Miller · State Ex Rel. Elliott v. Ratzburg · State v. Malone
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a note is executed and a mortgage is given to secure the payment of the note, the two instruments being made at the same time, they should be read together as one contract, and the resulting contract is to be determined by a construction of both in accordance with conventional rules.”
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.