State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Richmond (1976), State v. Brewer (1992)
2 federal appellate · 69 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · State Ex Rel. Berger v. Myers · State Ex Rel. Ronan v. Stevens
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, courts have no power to interfere with the discretion of the prosecutor unless he is acting illegally or in excess of his powers. [Citing State v. Murphy, 113 Ariz. 416 , 555 P.2d 1110 (1976).]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Neely“After Furman the legislature amended the criminal code.... The amended statute was intended to remove the deficiencies described by the Furman decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adamson v. Ricketts
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.