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Murray v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on McGinnis v. Hadix · Stevens v. McGinnis, Inc. · Gorod v. Tabachnick · Lutheran Service Ass'n of New England, Inc. v. Metropolitan District Commission · Forte v. Commonwealth

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Relief in the nature of mandamus is extraordinary, and is granted in the discretion of the court where no other relief is available.”
    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.