Murray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
45
cited by 45 later decisions
1
states following
December 1994
most recently cited
45 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Agurs · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Maldonado v. State · Cogdell v. United States · White 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If a defendant is innocent, he should not be convicted erroneously; but if a defendant is guilty, he should not be acquitted erroneously. By acquittal of the guilty a contempt of the law is aroused among the criminal classes and the safeguards of society are weakened."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. State · Timmons 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.