Cupp v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
256 federal appellate · 62 district · 772 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,306 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Gerstein v. Pugh (1975), New York v. Belton (1981)
256 federal appellate · 62 district · 772 state decisions — followed in 47 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDaniel P. Murphy v. Hoyt C. Cupp (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Mapp v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
Cited together with Schmerber v. State of California · Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Katz v. United States · Davis v. Mississippi
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 1,306 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“justified the police in subjecting him to the very limited search necessary to preserve the highly evanescent evidence they found under his fingernails.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Considering the existence of probable cause, the very limited intrusion undertaken incident to the stationhouse detention, and the ready destructibility of the evidence, we cannot say that this search violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'cherished personal security' that is subject to constitutional scrutiny,”
8 later decisions 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.