Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Williams v. State (1983), Gilreath v. State (1981)
36 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · People v. Dolgin · Dobbs v. State · 7 Ga. App. 115 - Hall 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Ownership,’ as that term is used in property law, is not an essential ingredient to proving that the premises entered were 'the dwelling place of another’ within the meaning of our burglary law, Code Ann. § 26-1601. [Cit.]”
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.