Murphy v. Hanrahan’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1955
19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Personalty has no inheritable quality. It does not descend to the heir. The administrator takes the legal title and possession, and the next of kin has only the mere right to it, or to the proceeds of it, on distribution, after the estate is settled and debts and expenses of administration are fully paid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKenney v. Minahan““The plaintiffs must obtain title to this note ... if at' all, through the administration of the estate of their father. Their recovery in this action would clearly be no bar to an-action by the administrator, when appointed, who will have full title to the note.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKenney v. Minahan
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.