Murphy v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1912
6 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 Docter v. Hellberg · Meade v. Gilfoyle · Baldwin v. Ely · Johnson v. Ashland Lumber Co. · Campbell v. Packard
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.
““In all assessment and tax rolls, and in all advertisements, certificates, papers, conveyances or proceedings for the assessment and collection of taxes, and proceedings founded thereon, . . . any descriptions of land which shall indicate the land intended with ordinary and reasonable certainty and which would he sufficient between grantor and grantee in an ordinary conveyance shall be sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corry v. Scudder
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.