State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1994 · most notably Kellems v. Brown (1972), Murphy, Inc. v. Town of Westport (1944)
2 district · 25 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 Youngblood v. Sexton · State v. McKee · Mayor of New York v. Second Avenue Railroad · State v. Conlon · State v. Travelers Insurance
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It does not militate against the taxation character of the act, that it is in form one which provides for the issuance of a license and the payment of a license fee as conditions of the doing of an act in the enjoyment of property rights, and makes the violation of its provisions a misdemeanor. License Tax Cases, 72 U. S. (5 Wall.) 462, 471, 472 , 18 L. Ed. 497 ; State v. Feingold, 77 Conn. 326, 328 , 59 Atl. 211 ; State v. Conlon, 65 Conn. 478, 482 [483], 33 Atl. 519 , 31 L. R. A. 55, 48 Am. St. Rep. 227 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giragi v. Moore“The taxing power is an inherent attribute of sovereignty and as such unlimited in character and scope save as limitations may be self-imposed. . . .'”
1 later decision 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.