Murry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1980
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. State · Wilson v. State · State v. Treficanto · Beberdick v. Crevier
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... It is a matter of common knowledge that many of the most atrocious and deliberate crimes are committed by persons more or less under the influence of intoxicants, indeed in many instances, the intoxicant is used to supply the necessary fortitude to commit the criminal act, and if appellant was not intoxicated to the extent of being incapable of having the specific intent to kill, the fact that he was intoxicated, but in a less degree, is no defense...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stevens v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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