United States v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 347 · 1928
Citation profile
313 federal appellate · 40 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 569 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Addonizio (1979), Burns v. United States (1932)
313 federal appellate · 40 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Cook (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Ex parte Lange · Ex parte United States · Klebe v. United States
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 569 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The beginning of the service of the sentence in a criminal case ends the power of the court even in the same term to change it.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and place the defendant on probation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon entering a judgment of conviction ., any court having jurisdiction may suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and place the defendant on probation for such period and upon such terms and conditions as the court deems best. The court may revoke or modify any condition of probation, or may change the period of probation. The period of probation, together with any extension thereof, shall not exceed five years. While on probation and among the conditions thereof, the defendant— May be required to pay a fine in one or several sums; and May be required to make restitution or reparation to aggrieved parties for actual damages or loss caused by the offense for which conviction was had; and May be required to provide for the support of any persons, for whose support he is legally responsible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.