State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2024
13 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 Strickland v. Washington · Illinois v. Allen · State v. Garner · Deck v. Missouri · State v. Williams
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he standard for competency is different, in that it relates to the defendant's present mental condition and [her] ability to understand the nature of the proceedings against [her] and to assist [her] counsel in [her] defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pack · State v. Rose“by a preponderance of the evidence that, because of the defendant's present mental condition, the defendant is incapable of understanding the nature and objective of the proceedings against the defendant or of assisting in the defendant's defense, the court shall find the defendant incompetent to stand trial and shall enter an order authorized by [R.C.] -3- Butler CA2020-11-115 2945.38.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson
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.