Murphy v. Mortell’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2021
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Indiana Department of State Revenue v. Caylor-Nickel Clinic, P.C. · Fawley v. Martin's Supermarkets, Inc. · Hermann v. Yater · Collins v. Thakkar · Doe Ex Rel Roe v. Madison Center Hospital
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sound[ ] in ordinary negligence where the factual issues are capable of resolution by a jury without application of the standard of care prevalent in the local medical community.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Cope
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.