Murphy v. Fairmount Township’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1954
5 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 Young v. Commissioners of Highways · Silver v. Board of County Commissioners · Board of County Commissioners v. Jacobs · State ex rel. Dawson v. Parsons Street Railway & Electrical Co. · Fisher v. Delaware Township
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has gone only to the extent of holding that counties and townships in instances like this are not required to respond in damages for injuries already caused; not that they may be permitted to continue a nuisance or that they may not be enjoined from so doing.” (p. 765.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Engler v. Aldridge
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.