Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1990
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Conway v. Wilson · Spencer v. Texas · Goodspeed v. Beto · Ash v. State · Muro v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An exception to this rule is that where the judge has not actively participated in the defendant’s prior conviction, he is not disqualified from sitting merely because of his former position, without proof of his actively taking part in the conviction. Ex parte Hopkins, Tex.Cr.App., 399 S.W.2d 551 ; Muro v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 387 S.W.2d 674 ; Garrett v. State, 155 Tex.Cr.R. 214 , 233 S.W.2d 498 ; Koll v. State, 143 Tex.Cr.R. 104 , 157 S.W.2d 377 ; and Goodspeed v. Beto, 341 F.2d 908 , cert. den., 386 U.S. 926 , 87 S.Ct. 867 , 17 L.Ed.2d 798 , reh. den., 386 U.S. 969 , 87 S.Ct. 1032 , 18 L.Ed.2d 126 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hathorne v. State
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.