Murray v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Kotteakos v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · Gilbert v. California · Fisher v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he inquiry is not simply 'whether there was enough [evidence] to support the result, apart from the phase affected by the error. It is rather, even so, whether the error itself had substantial influence. If so, or if one is left in grave doubt, the conviction cannot stand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test for abuse of discretion is whether the trial judge's decision was arbitrary, unreasonable, unfair, or unsupported by sound legal principles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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