Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Brady v. Brady (1905), Ex Parte Jackson (1925)
48 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 Ex parte Hardy · Wightman v. Wightman · Lyon v. Lyon · Bacon v. Bacon · Glover v. Glover
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Maintenance, not beyond the husband’s means, is all the law can enforce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Thomas
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.