State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Hansen (2007), State v. Towery (2003)
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 United States v. Klein · Hall v. A.N.R. Freight System, Inc. · San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Superior Court · State v. Tarango · State v. Behl
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general matter, the separation of powers doctrine leaves creation of future statutory law to the legislative branch and determination of existing law and its application to past events to the judicial branch.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fell · State v. Montes“`change the legal consequence of events completed before [a] statute's enactment.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rios
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.