Murphy v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Peak v. COM., UNEMPLOYMENT COMP. BD. (1985), Doerr v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (1985)
34 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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Kirchberg v. Feenstra · General Electric Credit Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission · Commonwealth v. Palmer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
2 later decisions 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.