375 So. 2d 80 - State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 851 So. 2d 921 - State v. Tate (2003), 758 So. 2d 749 - State v. Castleberry (1999)
60 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 Ingraham v. Wright · United States v. Cianchetti · State v. Howard · United States v. Lee · 339 So. 2d 764 - State v. May
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that the scope of the voir dire examination is within the sound discretion of the trial judge and his rulings thereon will not be disturbed in the absence of a clear abuse of discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“when there is no corroboration, the problem of perjury looms large and warrants a judicial exposition of the frailties of accomplice testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunn · State v. Jackson“In State v. Murray, 375 So.2d 80, 83 (La.1979), this court was faced with a similar situation: "In the instant case, in view of the testimony of two prospective jurors that under no circumstances would they believe the testimony of a homosexual, we are satisfied that the trial judge did not abuse his discretion in sustaining the state's challenge for cause of these prospective jurors...."”
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.