Murphy v. Erwin-Wasey, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 661 · 1972
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 44 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Ticketmaster-New York, Inc. v. Alioto (1994), Boit v. Gar-Tec Products, Inc. (1992)
50 federal appellate · 44 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Hanson v. Denckla · McGee v. International Life Insurance · Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co. v. Barnes & Reinecke, Inc. · 22 Ill. 2d 432 - Gray v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co.
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a defendant knowingly sends into a state a false statement, intending that it should there be relied upon to the injury of a resident of that state, he has, for jurisdictional purposes, acted within that state.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) transacting any business in this commonwealth; (b) contracting to supply services or things in this commonwealth; (c) causing tortious injury by an act or omission in this commonwealth; (d) causing tortious injury in this commonwealth by an act or omission outside this commonwealth if he regularly does or solicits business, or engages in any other persistent course of conduct, or derives substantial revenue from goods used or consumed or services rendered, in this commonwealth; (e) having an interest in, using or possessing real property in this commonwealth.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the frequently hypothesized but rarely encountered gunman firing across a state line”
2 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.