95 Cal. App. 2d 306 - Murphy v. Munson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2002
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Kadota Fig Ass'n of Producers v. Case-Swayne Co. · 7 Cal. App. 2d 654 - Walsh v. American Trust Co. · Sayre v. Nichols · Vanciel v. Kumle · Ross v. Prudential Guarantee Building & Loan Ass'n
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`there was no attempt to delegate authority to the amanuensis to exercise discretion with respect to the provisions of the [agreement], but merely to authorize him to sign the agent's name to the document.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“perfectly valid, whether the name was signed in or out of his presence.”
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.