McMorran v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1945
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the court was right in this direction. The evidence is undisputed that no part of the $7,000 or $8,000 notes were paid in fact. The notes finally given in place of them must be considered as renewals of the original ones.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“—“were in renewal of the notes for similar amounts mentioned in the agreement, the giving of the notes as such renewals would not amount to a payment, and plaintiffs should recover.””
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.