State Ex Rel. Casey v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1978 · most notably Lane v. Brown (1963), Willoughby v. State (1960)
13 federal appellate · 60 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 Lester v. Grant Circuit Court · Cook v. State · Blanton v. State · State Ex Rel. Crawford v. Owen · Walker Alias Walters v. State
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Public Defender is not required to represent any prisoner whose assertion that he is unlawfully imprisoned, after due investigation, appears in his sound judgment to have no merit. In re Kretchmer (1946), 224 Ind. 559 , 69 N. E. 2d 598 ; State ex rel. Fulton v. Schannen (1946), 224 Ind. 55, 58 , 64 N. E. 2d 798; Sweet v. State (1948), 226 Ind. 566 , 81 N. E. 2d 679 .” State ex rel. Casey v. Murray (1952), 231 Ind. 74 77 , 106 N. E. 2d 911, 912 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State““There must be cause shown to excuse the delay, and there must be a prima facie showing made of merit to the appeal. If a different rule prevailed every prisoner could prosecute a delayed appeal without cause or merit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barker v. State
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.