Murray v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Bialac Harsh Investment Corp v. G Bialac T Bialac Harsh Investment Corp, Bialac v. Bialac (1983)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Halpin v. . Phenix Ins. Co. · Kortright v. . Cady · Arnold v. . Green · Whelan v. Reilly · Tuthill v. . Morris
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The right of subrogation under the better rule applies in cases where a party who has an interest in the property and who does not stand as a mere volunteer pays a debt owing in whole or in part by another, to protect his own rights or to save his own property. ...” (Italics ours.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““"While at law the rule that a tender must be kept good by payment in court is well-nigh universal, it is not so in equity.””
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.