State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State v. Vern Kills on Top (1990), Ranta v. State (1998)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 42 Ill. 2d 91 - The People v. Nicholls · State v. Holt · State v. Best · State Ex Rel. Mankin v. Wilson · State v. Zadick
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Montana follows the rule of statutory construction where in adopting a statute from a sister state, the court adopts the construction placed upon it by the highest court of the state from which it was adopted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ranta v. State · Edgar v. Hunt“an indictment need not distinguish an act performed by the accused himself and the act of another for which he is legally accountable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the record is clear that no surprise existed, this Court does not condone the method used by the state in charging the defendant. If the state planned to charge the defendant with aiding and abetting, in proper practice it should have done so from the onset. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tower
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.