Murphy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
45 F.3d 520 · 1995
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 189 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 264 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Aversa v. United States (1996), Valentin v. Hospital Bella Vista (2001)
44 federal appellate · 189 district ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 6671 · 26 U.S.C. § 74 · 26 U.S.C. § 7430 · 26 U.S.C. § 7433 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · United States v. Whiting Pools, Inc. · United States v. Dalm · United States v. Mottaz · United States v. Michel
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 264 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The party invoking the jurisdiction of a federal court carries the burden of proving its existence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that the United States, as sovereign, may not be sued without its consent.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e construe the Complaint liberally and treat all well-pleaded facts as true, according the plaintiff the benefit of all reasonable inferences.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.