Murray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.2d 694 · 1968
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Disla (1986), United States v. Oropeza (1977)
55 federal appellate · 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 Marchetti v. United States · Grosso v. United States · Smith v. Crouse · Haynes v. United States · Wenzler v. Pitchess
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "mere proximity to the drug, mere presence on the property where it is located, or mere association, without more, with the person who does control the drug or the property on which it is found, is insufficient to support a finding of possession.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There was no direct evidence that Lonnie knew anything about the heroin concealed on Johnnie’s person, and there is no circumstantial evidence from which that knowledge can be presumed or inferred. (emphasis added) 403 F.2d at 696 .”
1 later decision 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.