Mark v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1938
17 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 Lash v. Rendell · Smith v. Little · Teal v. Hinchman · Frazee v. Frazee · Jackman v. Nowling
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the appellant demanded more relief than he was entitled to ought not to defeat his right to recover any relief. The facts stated in his cross-complaint were sufficient to show that the mortgage in suit was a cloud upon the appellant’s title to two-thirds of the premises, and that far forth they showed that he was entitled to the relief prayed for.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mohr v. Sands
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.