State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Young (1985), State v. Stokes (1987)
116 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 Missouri v. Hunter · State v. Odom · Sullivan v. United States · Morgan Walton Properties, Inc. v. International City Bank & Trust Co. · State v. Ahearn
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even where evidence to support two or more offenses overlaps, double jeopardy does not occur unless the evidence required to support the two convictions is identical. If proof of an additional fact is required for each conviction which is not required for the other, even though some of the same acts must be proved in the trial of each, the offenses are not the same.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Supreme Court of the United States has held | that, where a legislature clearly expresses its intent to proscribe and punish exactly the same conduct under two separate statutes, a trial court in a single trial may impose cumulative punishments under the statutes. Missouri v. Hunter, 459 U.S. 359 , 103 S.Ct. 673 , 74 L.Ed. 2d 535 (1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pipkins · State v. Gardner“Q. And on the same day, the 26th of April, 1976, were you convicted of assaulting Nathanial Mosely, by hitting him with your fists? A. Yes, I was. Q. On the 18th of April, 1978, were you convicted of communicating threats by threatening to kill Wayne Watkins, and blow up his store? A. No, sir. I got charged with it, but I didn’t do that. I got probation on that, but I didn’t do that. Q. Well, were you convicted of that? A. I was with some friends, I guess yeah. Q. You were with some friends so you got convicted with them? A. Yes, sir. Q. On the 22nd of July, 1981, July a year ago, were you convicted of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury by beating Charles Elbert Corbett on the head with a pistol on April the 11th, 1981? A. Yes, sir. Q. And you were sentenced to prison for that, is that correct? A. Two year sentence. Q. And did you, in fact, hit Charles Elbert Corbett on the head with that pistol? A. No, sir.”
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.