Murray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1990
23 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 Glover v. State · Gernhart v. State · Kelley v. State · Young v. State · Connell 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or beast; . . . ” Acts 1905, ch. 169, §473, p. 584, being §10-4221, Burns’ 1956 Repl.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estes v. State · Dixon v. State“"In view of this fact, we think we are left free to conclude that our Legislature, when it passed the act of 1905 (§ 2374 Burns 1908), supra, chose rather the broad definition of the crime, which would include those abominations within the mischief of the law, rather than the narrow one which without reason would exclude from punishment a perpetrator of what might well be considered the vilest and most degenerate of all the acts within the inclusion of the broad definition." (Emphasis added.) 179 Ind. at 465, 466 , 101 N.E. at 632 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dixon 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.