State v. McMurtrey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Walton v. Arizona (1990), Adamson v. Ricketts (1988)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 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 Santoni v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Johnson v. Florida · State v. Gretzler · State v. Watson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant left the bar and was sober enough to transact a gun purchase. Upon reentering, defendant assumed a combat-like crouch and was able to accurately aim at his victims using both hands. He had no trouble in maintaining his balance and did not appear to be significantly intoxicated. When the gun was emptied of bullets, defendant calmly put it down, briskly walked out of the bar, and fled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McMurtrey“Because the trial judge imposed upon the defendant a more onerous burden of proof in determining the existence of mitigating circumstances, the matter will have to be remanded for resentencing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Arizona“sufficiently substantial to call for leniency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Arizona
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.