246 So. 2d 920 - Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2018
19 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 Summerville v. State · Leverett v. State · State v. Plumlee · 239 So. 2d 911 - Pryor v. State · Phenizee 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district attorney has the right in a capital case to reasonably satisfy himself that no juror who entertains conscientious scruples against the death penalty shall remain on a jury, even though the juror may have passed the examination by the judge; and he may to a reasonable length search further into that inquiry. But in so doing he must not go to the extent of forcing what is in the nature of a committal as to what the juror or jury would do in that particular case, nor shall the examination be of such character as to introduce or create the impression that a juror will rest under the frown of official displeasure unless he returns a death verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. State“The examination on the question we are here considering should be in the abstract as to the class of cases, one of which is about to be tried; not what the juror or jury might or might not do in a particular case then and there at bar. It is time enough for the district attorney, in the particular case, to call for the death penalty in his argument on the merits after the jury has heard all of the evidence, and can better judge of the weight of that argument and of the justification of the demand for the death penalty, rather than it shall be emphasized upon the voir dire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“district attorney has the right in a capital case to reasonably satisfy himself that no juror [entertains] conscientious scruples against the death penalty . . . and he may to a reasonable length search further into that inquiry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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