Murphy v. Okeke’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Moore v. Moore · Johnson v. Fairfax Village Condominium IV Unit Owners Ass'n · 200 W. Va. 139 - Pearson v. Pearson · 21 Ill. 2d 605 - The PEOPLE v. Goduto
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.
“should take into account the important policy consideration that awarding counsel fees helps domestic violence victims to overcome the financial barrier of high legal costs and to assert their right to bring action against their aggressors. Otherwise, some victims might be dissuaded or prevented from filing a CPO petition. 22”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cave v. Scheulov
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.