Murtha v. . Curley’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1961 · most notably Reynolds v. Stockton (1891), Doyle v. Allstate Insurance (1956)
5 federal appellate · 62 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if the prayer for judgment was defective for equitable relief, an answer having been interposed, the plaintiff could have any relief 'consistent with the case made by the complaint, and embraced within the issue.’ (Code, § 1207.) “Under our present system of practice a plaintiff is not to be turned out of court, wdien ■ an answer had been interposed, because he has prayed for too much or too little, or for wrong relief. * * * “A court of equity adapts its relief to the exigencies of the case in hand. It may restrain or compel the defendant; it may appoint .a receiver or order an accounting; it may compel specific performance, or order the delivery to the plaintiff of specific real or personal property; or it may order a sum of money to be paid to the plaintiff, and give him a personal judgment therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oliva v. Fernandez
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.