United States v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 143 · 1994
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Beidler (1997)
76 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1114
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Caminetti v. United States · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the sole function of the courts is to enforce it according to its terms.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he jury, not the reviewing court, weighs the credibility of the evidence and resolves any conflicts in the evidence presented, and if the evidence supports different, reasonable interpretations, the jury decides which interpretation to believe.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.