State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably 290 So. 2d 681 - State v. Paciera (1974), State v. Clifton (1965)
38 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 State v. Aspara · State v. Broadnax · State v. Bussa · State v. Stickney · 48 La. Ann. 305 - State v. Fontenot
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the probative value of evidence as to the wealth of one accused of theft or receiving stolen things is so slight that it can hardly be said that its exclusion is prejudicial to the substantial rights of the accused”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.