Murphy v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 52 Cal. App. 2d 184 - Gossman v. Gossman (1942), 3 Cal. App. 2d 454 - Brea v. McGlashan (1934)
36 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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · People ex rel. Love v. Center · Pico v. Cuyas · Biddel v. Brizzolara · Smith v. Acker
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There should be findings upon all the material issues in the case, but a judgment will not be reversed for want of a finding on a particular issue, where it is apparent that the failure to find on that issue is in no way prejudicial to the appellant.””
2 later decisions 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.