Murphy v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 340 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Clarksville-Montgomery County School System v. United States Gypsum Co. (1991), Farrell v. Klein Tools, Inc. (1989)
26 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Rich v. United States · Larsen v. General Motors Corp. · Dunn v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Shelton III v. City of College Station
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he objections should be made not only before the jury retires, but after the charge is given.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norton v. Colyer“Smith, as former Medical Director of the leading manufacturer of asbestos-containing products, was in a unique position to discuss the scope of knowledge available to the industry during his 20-year tenure at Johns-Manville.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.