Murphy v. Beto’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 98 · 1969
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Del Vecchio v. Illinois Department of Corrections (1994), Lott v. Coyle (2001)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Smith v. Crouse · Murphy v. Houma Well Service · Fisher v. United States · Etchieson v. Texas
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen it appears . . . that the sufficiency of the indictment was squarely presented to the highest court of the state on appeal, and the court held that the trial court had jurisdiction over the case, the issue is foreclosed to a federal habeas court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Jurisdiction to try an offense includes jurisdiction to determine whether the offense is properly charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Millard v. Lynaugh“so fatally defective as to deprive the convicting court of jurisdiction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyer v. Estelle
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.