Murphy v. King County’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 42 Wash. 2d 373 - Gillis v. King County (1953), Van Buren v. Trumbull (1916)
34 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 Town of West Seattle v. West Seattle Land & Improvement Co. · Horey v. . Village of Haverstraw · Paine Lumber Co. v. City of Oshkosh
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any county road, or part thereof, which has heretofore been or may hereafter be authorized, which remains unopened for public use for the space of five years after the order is made or authority granted for opening the same, shall be and the same is hereby vacated, and the authority for building the same barred by lapse of time.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“under the control and supervision of the boards of county commissioners”
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.