In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
1,284 federal appellate · 225 district · 1,520 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,137 later decisions (161 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Richardson v. Perales (1971)
1,284 federal appellate · 225 district · 1,520 state decisions — followed in 50 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.
Relationships
Relies on Tumey v. State of Ohio · In re Oliver · Offutt v. United States · Cooke v. United States
Cited together with Tumey v. State of Ohio · Offutt v. United States · Withrow v. Larkin · Ward v. Village of Monroeville · Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie
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 4,137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fair trial in a fair tribunal is a basic requirement of due process.”
298 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any judge of its courts of record to act as a so-called `one-man grand jury.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct, personal, substantial pecuniary interest”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.