Murphy v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Barb v. Farmers Insurance Exchange (1955), State v. Walton (1990)
40 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 Crawford v. United States · Stotler ex rel. Stotler v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co. · State v. Young · Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Tice · Theobald v. St. Louis Transit Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If for any reason, whether statutory or not, a prospective juror is not in a position to enter the jury box with an open mind, free from bias or prejudice in favor of or against either party to the cause, and decide the case upon the evidence adduced and the law as contained in the court’s instructions, he is not a competent juror.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walton“A juror in the employ of one of the parties to a cause might honestly believe he had no bias or prejudice one way or the other, yet it is a matter of common knowledge that the frailties of human nature would cause him, perhaps unconsciously, to view the cause through the spectacles of his employer.”
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.