Murphy v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Prenalta Corporation v. Colorado Interstate Gas Company (1991), Cathcart v. Meyer (2004)
2 district · 23 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 Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Barfield v. Howard M. Smith Company of Amarillo · Bankers Trust Company, a Corporation v. Pacific Employers Insurance Company, a Corporation, and the Century Insurance Company, Limited, a Corporation · Taylor v. Lewis · Opie v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On conflicting evidence, the question of whether a partnership exists is one for the trier of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. Besel · Barton v. Barton“'Unless the delay has worked injury, prejudice or disadvantage to the defendants or others adversely interested, it is not of itself laches.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We think that the nonconflicting evidence here admits of only one conclusion, and a contrary conclusion cannot stand. [Citation.] Even if the evidence here did justify either of two reasonable inferences, this court will reverse the finding if it can say, as a matter of law, that the inference in favor of the party which did not have the burden of proof was more, or at least equally, probable. [Citation.] * * * ” Murphy v. Stevens, Wyo., 645 P.2d 82, 93 (1982).”
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.