Murphy v. Bonanno’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Wrenn v. McFadden · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc.
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.
“appellant’s factual proffer with respect to the assertedly bogus insurance claims was fairly specific (except as to dates), including the precise amounts recovered by his wife. On the other hand, the assertion that Ms. Murphy lured the doctor to her apartment to lay the ground for a false claim of sexual harassment and extort a settlement might turn out, on minimal examination, to rest on mere conjecture from the fact that the parties compromised the debt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lewis v. Voss“A witness may be cross-examined on a prior bad act that has not resulted in a criminal conviction only where (1) the examiner has a factual predicate for the question, and (2) the bad act bears directly upon the veracity of the witness in respect to the issues involved in the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable limits” on cross-examination to prevent, among other things,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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