Murray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
652 federal appellate · 185 district · 888 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,287 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Heck v. Humphrey (1994), Hudson v. Michigan (2006)
652 federal appellate · 185 district · 888 state decisions — followed in 43 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · United States v. Wade · Weeks v. United States · Nix v. Williams
Cited together with Nix v. Williams · Wong Sun v. United States · Segura v. United States · Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon
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 2,287 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inevitable discovery doctrine, with its distinct requirements, is in reality an extrapolation from the independent source doctrine: Since the tainted evidence would be admissible if in fact discovered through an independent source, it should be admissible if it inevitably would have been discovered.”
152 later decisions quote this exact passage“what counts is whether the actual illegal entry had any effect in producing the warrant.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it is the function of the District Court rather than the Court of Appeals to determine the facts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.