Murphy v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 840 · 1969
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2015
5 federal appellate ·
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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Federal habeas corpus does not afford a means of transferring pending state criminal proceedings to a federal court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpson v. Spice
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.