Commonwealth v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2025
16 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 Presser v. State of Illinois · State v. Reid · Williams v. State · Dunne v. People · Wilson v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This view cannot be supported. The right to keep and bear arms for the common defense does not include the right to associate together as a military organization, or to drill and parade with arms in cities or towns, unless authorized so to do by law. This is a matter affecting the public security, quiet, and good order, and it is within the police powers of the legislature to regulate the bearing of arms so as to forbid such unauthorized drills and parades.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t has been almost universally held that the legislature may regulate and limit the mode of carrying arms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dawson
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.