People v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1998
20 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 Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Harris · 63 Cal. 2d 822 - Kellett v. Superior Court · 8 Cal. 3d 77 - Theodor v. Superior Court · 10 Cal. 3d 910 - In Re Foss
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The officer may break open any outer or inner door ... if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to a person who appeared to be in control of the premises and who authorized their entry,”
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.