State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc. · Coastal Barge Corp. v. Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board · United States v. Yancey · LeVan v. Independence Mall, Inc. · United States v. Patterson
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statute is unambiguous, and an application of the literal meaning of its words would not be absurd or unreasonable, there is no legal basis for an interpretation of those words by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. State“). See also State v. Cephas , 637 A.2d 20 , 28 (Del. 1994) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans v. State
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.