State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Tyndall (1999), United States v. Hemingway (2013)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 Ford v. State · State v. Jones · State v. Mims · State v. Johnson · State v. Forbes
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ssault differs from assault and battery in that there is no touching of the victim in an assault.”
2 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.