Murphy v. Jefferson Pilot Communications Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Only parties to a contract may be sued for a breach of contract cause of action.”
• “Only parties to a contract may be sued for a breach of contract cause of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Allen v. McCurry
  Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 4,909×
• Montana v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-02-22· cited 3,633×
• Percy Stanley Harris v. Ronald Hutchinson, Warden, Maryland House of Corrections J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Maryland
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-04-04· cited 821×
• In Re Varat Enterprises, Inc., Debtor. First Union Commercial Corporation v. Nelson, Mullins, Riley and Scarborough
  First Circuit· 1996-04-23· cited 370×
• Matthew Dixon v. Coburg Dairy, Incorporated, Equal Employment Advisory Council, Amicus Curiae
  Fourth Circuit· 2004-05-25· cited 337×
• Charleston Dry Cleaners & Laundry, Inc. v. Zurich American Insurance
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2003-09-15· cited 48×
• Moore v. Weinberg
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2007-02-20· cited 41×
• Aids Counseling & Testing Centers v. Group W Television, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-05-22· cited 40×
• Epstein v. Brown
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2005-03-21· cited 38×
• RoTec Services, Inc. v. Encompass Services, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2004-06-01· cited 32×
• Blue Valley Creamery Co. v. Cronimus
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1937-11-09· cited 25×
• Twelfth RMA Partners, L.P. v. National Safe Corp.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1999-05-10· cited 24×
• Cheuk Wai Chan v. Thompson
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1990-07-02· cited 22×
• State v. McClinton
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2006-06-19· cited 17×
• Strauser v. Westfield Insurance Co.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-05-25· cited 16×
• Anonymous Taxpayer v. South Carolina Department of Revenue
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2008-04-28· cited 12×
• Charles W. Stall, Jr. v. John E. Bourne, Jr., and Ross F. Walker
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-10-11· cited 9×
• Murphy v. Jefferson Pilot Communications Co.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-05-02· cited 9×
• Coakley v. Horace Mann Insurance
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2007-12-17· cited 7×
• Shaffer v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
  N.D. West Virginia· 2005-05-18· cited 5×