494 So. 2d 891 - Murray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2015
21 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Weatherford v. Bursey · Jones v. Howard · United States v. Bell · United States v. Pleasant
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'For this court to rule that a trial judge abused its discretion in this matter, an appellant has a heavy burden of establishing that he was unable to obtain a fair trial without a severance and that he suffered compelling prejudice which the trial court could not prevent.' " Murray v. State , 494 So.2d 891 , 894 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986), quoting Cowart v. State , 488 So.2d 497 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985), overruled on other grounds by McClendon v. State , 513 So.2d 102 (Ala.Cr.App. 1986). "[T]he mere fact that [the appellant] might have had a better chance of acquittal if he had been tried at a separate trial is not compelling prejudice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A specific ground of objection waives all other grounds. Cooper v. State , 474 So.2d 182 , 183 (Ala.Cr.App. 1985). 'It is well settled that all grounds of objection not specified are waived, and that the trial court will not be placed in error on grounds not raised at trial.' Blackmon v. State , 449 So.2d 1264 , 1266 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is no constitutional right to plea bargain; the prosecutor need not do so if he prefers to go to trial. It is a novel argument that constitutional rights are infringed by trying the defendant rather than accepting his plea of guilty.”
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.