Murphy v. Klein Tools, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 1127 · 1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably John Joseph Romano v. Gary Gibson Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary (2001), United States of America v. David Meyers (2000)
18 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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 Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Brown v. United States · Roemer v. United States · Waldschmidt v. Ranier · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa
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.
“'fairly and regularly entered into by a court of competent jurisdiction is ... an effective bar under the doctrine of res judicata to a subsequent action between parties on the same cause of action.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newton v. Moten
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.