Murphy v. State Canvassing Board’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Powder River Basin Resource Council v. Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission (2014), Board of County Commissioners v. Crow (2003)
25 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 Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Munro v. Socialist Workers Party · Rasmussen v. Baker · Parker Land & Cattle Co. v. Wyoming Game & Fish Commission · Wene v. Meyner
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We give effect to every word, clause and sentence and construe all components of a statute in pari materia.”
4 later decisions 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.