Murray v. Dempsey’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2012
8 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 380 So. 2d 865 - City Car Sales, Inc. v. McAlpin · 416 So. 2d 1059 - Congress Finance Corp. v. Funderburk · 495 So. 2d 608 - Steger v. Everett Bus Sales · Heathcock v. Hadley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had either legal title to the property or the right to immediate possession of the property in question and the defendant had wrongfully taken possession of the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“While a certificate of title is prima facie evidence of ownership [of an automobile], § 32-8-39 (d), Ala. Code (1975), this can be contradicted by other evidence.”
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.