455 So. 2d 53 - Murry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Ex Parte Harrell (1985), 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987)
41 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · McNabb v. United States · Dobbert v. Florida · Proffitt v. Florida · United States v. Feola
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The determination of whether the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances and vice versa, is not a numerical one. See Alabama Code § 13A-5-48 (1975). It is based on the gravity of the aggravating circumstances compared to that of the mitigating circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(1) With intent to cause the death of another person, he causes the death of that person or another person. . . ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'It is not improper for the trial court to urge upon the jury the duty of attempting to reach an agreement or verdict so long as it does not coerce or suggest which way the verdict should be returned. McMorris v. State , 394 So.2d 392 (Ala.Cr.App. 1980), cert. denied , 394 So.2d 404 (Ala. 1981); Allred v. State , 390 So.2d 1109 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied , 390 So.2d 1114 (Ala. 1980); Lake v. State , 390 So.2d 1088 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied , 390 So.2d 1093 (Ala. 1980).' Galloway v. State , 416 So.2d 1103 , 1109 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982). 'In situations such as the one at issue, judges may, and frequently do, encourage jurors to continue deliberating in the hope that some agreement will be reached. This is never improper as long as the judge does not coerce the jury to reach a verdict or suggest to them a particular verdict. Strickland v. State , 348 So.2d 1105 (Ala.Cr.App. 1977); Jones v. State , 56 Ala. App. 444 , 322 So.2d 735 (1975).' Murry v. State , 455 So.2d 53 , 64 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983).”
2 later decisions 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.