Murphy v. Kentucky; And Phillips v. Kentucky’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 6 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Collins v. Youngblood (1990), Blanco v. Singletary (1991)
80 federal appellate · 6 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield · Thompson v. State of Missouri · White v. Butler
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evident confusion among lower courts concerning the application of the Ex Post Facto clause to changes in rules of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The act deals with procedures at trial. The procedure at trial is governed by the rules of procedure which exist at the time of trial, not at the time of the commission of the offense. No one has a vested right in the modes of procedure, and the state, upon grounds of public policy, may regulate them at pleasure. Such regulations of the mode in which the facts constituting guilt may be placed before the jury can be made applicable to prosecutions or trials thereafter and without reference to the date of the commission of the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.