Murphy v. Wallingford’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1915
1 federal appellate · 5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Possession is presumptive evidence of title, but it must be an actual bona, fide occupation, a pedis possessio, a subjection to tlie will and control, as contra-distinguished from the mere assertion of title and the exercise of casual acts of ownership. A mere entry, without color of title, accompanied by a survey and marking of boundaries, is not sufficient.””
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.