Murdock v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Maiden v. Rozwood (1999), Bennett v. MIS Corp. (2010)
2 federal appellate · 16 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a `special relationship' either between the defendant and the victim, or the defendant and the third party who caused the injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only after finding that a duty exists may the factfinder determine whether, in light of the particular facts of the case, there was a breach of the duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the relationship of the parties, the foreseeability of the harm, the burden on the defendant, and the nature of the risk presented.'”
1 later decision 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.