25 Cal. 4th 136 - People v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 387 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 409 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 38 Cal. 4th 72 - People v. Jurado (2006), 53 Cal. 4th 1261 - People v. Cornett (2012)
7 federal appellate · 387 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 Parker v. Levy · 45 Cal. 3d 727 - Lungren v. Deukmejian · 43 Cal. 3d 1379 - Dyna-Med, Inc. v. Fair Employment & Housing Commission · 10 Cal. 3d 222 - Moyer v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board · 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero)
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 409 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'As in any case involving statutory interpretation, our fundamental task is to determine the Legislature's intent so as to effectuate the law's purpose.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Citation.]' [Citation.] We must harmonize 'the various parts of a statutory enactment ... by considering the particular clause or section in the context of the statutory framework as a whole.' [Citations.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in context, keeping in mind the nature and obvious purpose of the statute ....”
3 later decisions 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.