Commonwealth v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Crawford (1994), Commonwealth v. Miranda (2004)
1 district · 24 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 California v. ARC America Corp. · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · Commonwealth v. Ferreira · Commonwealth v. Cooper
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a crime can be committed in any one of several ways, an indictment properly charges its commission in all those ways, using the conjunction 'and' in joining them”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has not shown that the [change] prejudiced him in his defense.”
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.