Lee v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016
5 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.
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.
“whether the acceptance by the convict of the terms imposed by the executive does not give to the [putative commutation] the operation and effect of a conditional pardon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blount v. Clarke“The implication is almost irresistible that commutation, in other than capital cases, is forbidden by the constitution of 1851.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blount v. Clarke“[i]f followed by the acceptance of the convict ... practically amounts to the same thing as a conditional pardon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blount v. Clarke
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.