McMurphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2004
9 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 347 So. 2d 1377 - Ex Parte Thompson · Edwards v. State · Blakeney v. State · 41 Ala. App. 351 - Johnson v. State · 56 Ala. App. 444 - Jones v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hough the appellant unquestionably had the owner's consent to take the automobile and show it to his wife there is overwhelming evidence that he intended to steal the car from the moment he climbed behind the steering wheel: The length of time the appellant kept the vehicle; the fact that he never returned it; the fact that he was apprehended in another state driving the same automobile; and the deteriorated condition of the automobile upon its recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Larceny is the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal property of another with the intent on the part of the taker to convert it to his own use, or to deprive the owner thereof. Higgs v. State , 113 Ala. 36 , 21 So. 353 ; Moulden v. State , 47 Ala. App. 573 , 258 So.2d 915 ; Armstrong v. State , 49 Ala. App. 396 , 272 So.2d 603 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. McMurphy v. State“without the consent of the owner or possessor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMurphy v. State
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.