State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2023
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patterson v. State · Collins v. State · Dowdy v. Palmour · Waits v. State · Cheeley v. Henderson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“language used in the 1983 Constitution may also be read to include all murder cases, and indeed the records of the Select Committee on Constitutional Revision, which drafted that language, provide considerable support for the view that it was intended to continue our direct appeal jurisdiction over murder cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Neal v. State“to transfer to the Supreme Court all cases in which either a sentence of death or of life imprisonment has been imposed upon conviction of murder, and all pre-conviction appeals in murder cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Neal v. State“has provided a practical, bright-line rule which continues to serve both Georgia appellate courts well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Neal 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.