McMurphy v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that plaintiffs lacked standing to bring claim that city breached its contractual agreement with state to maintain highway intersection because plaintiffs were only incidental beneficiaries to contract
• holding that plaintiffs lacked standing to bring claim that city breached its contractual agreement with state to maintain highway intersection because plaintiffs were only incidental beneficiaries to contract
• allowing an injured motorist to proceed on a negligence claim based on alleged failure to comply with design standards that the State clearly intended to comply with
• examining contract to determine whether plaintiffs’ daughter was a third-party beneficiary of agreement
• “We presume that language [in a statute] is inserted advisedly and that the Legislature did not intend to create surplusage.”
• “The determination of whether a party may be classified as a third-party beneficiary, as opposed to an incidental beneficiary, is based on the original contracting parties’ intention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Powers v. Office of Child Support
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-04-05· cited 103×
• Searles v. Agency of Transportation
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-08-24· cited 38×
• Sweet v. Roy
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-04-26· cited 35×
• Knelman v. Middlebury College
  D. Vermont· 2012-09-28· cited 29×
• Morway v. Trombly
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-12-28· cited 28×
• In re 204 North Avenue NOV (Pierre Gingue, Appellant)
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2019-08-30· cited 26×
• Ferrisburgh Realty Investors v. Schumacher
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2010-02-04· cited 24×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-08-23· cited 22×
• O'CONNOR v. City of Rutland
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-04-13· cited 16×
• Hemond v. Frontier Communications of America, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2015-04-17· cited 16×
• In re M.S.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2017-09-01· cited 11×
• Vermont State Auditor, Douglas R. Hoffer v. OneCare Accountable Care Organization, LLC, d/b/a OneCare Vermont
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2022-07-01· cited 11×
• Kathleen Vanderbloom v. State of Vermont, Agency of Transportation
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2015-08-21· cited 10×
• Fuller v. Banknorth Mortgage Co.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-10-29· cited 9×
• Wayne Doncaster & Elizabeth Doncaster v. John A. Hane, Pam Hane & Town of Irasburg
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2020-03-13· cited 9×
• Barnet Hydro Co. v. Public Service Board
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2002-04-22· cited 8×
• Catherine Lyons v. Chittenden Central Supervisory Union
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2018-03-16· cited 8×
• Anthony Sutton v. Vermont Regional Center
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2019-10-04· cited 2×
• Antony Sutton v. Vermont Regional Center
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2020-07-31· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2015-04-17

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In re P.S.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1997-08-08· cited 66×
• LaShay v. Department of Social & Rehabilitation Services
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-01-15· cited 52×
• Morrisville Lumber Co., Inc. v. Okcuoglu
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1987-05-01· cited 51×
• Brennan v. Town of Colchester
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1999-04-09· cited 48×
• Marshall v. Town of Brattleboro
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1960-03-02· cited 40×
• Hillerby v. Town of Colchester
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1997-11-26· cited 30×
• Payea v. Howard Bank
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1995-07-14· cited 23×
• Town of South Burlington v. American Fidelity Co.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1965-12-07· cited 23×
• Lussier v. Truax
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-12-22· cited 11×
• Peters v. State
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-11-19· cited 7×
• Gretkowski v. City of Burlington
  D. Vermont· 1998-07-09· cited 1×