453 So. 2d 1290 - Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985)
47 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 Reddix v. State · 448 So. 2d 927 - Wilcher v. State · Stokes v. State · Shimniok v. State · Young 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]earsay is incompetent evidence. You may open the door for collateral, irrelevant, and otherwise damaging evidence to come in on cross-examination ... but Mississippi recognizes no rule of law that allows double hearsay to be brought in through this open door.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In such circumstances it would be vain and foolish to demand that in the heated flow of trial, where the grounds of the objection are reasonably apparent from the context, that counsel state his grounds or waive his objection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The State cannot sit silent while the defense elicits hearsay and then seek to solicit hearsay in response over the objection of the defense, based upon the State's initial failure to object. . . . To allow this is tantamount to allowing two wrongs in hope of arriving at a right.”
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.