Robinson v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Kinnon v. L. & N. R. R. (1914), Bryan v. W. T. Smith Lumber Co. (1965)
32 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 Snodgrass v. Branch Bank at Decatur · Thompson v. Lea · Maddux v. Bevan · Albertson, Douglass & Co. v. Goldsby · West, Oliver & Co. v. Ball
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the payment of money to him after judgment he may give a valid receipt, but a sale or assignment of the judgment does not lie within the scope of his authority. Boren v. McGehee, 6 Port. 432 [ 31 Am. Dec. 695 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hayes v. Waldrop““. . . when the decree ... is assailed as erroneous in the whole, an assignment of error, in the general terms of this assignment, must be accepted as conforming to the rules of practice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . . The error assigned by the appellants asserts that the decree as an entirety is erroneous.” (Emphasis Supplied) ( 69 Ala. at page 546 )”
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.