In re Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1959
4 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Each inhabitant of the territory of Utah was also an inhabitant of the United States, and was therefore a subject of each government, and owed allegience to and was amenable to the laws of each. If, therefore, he perpetrated an act which constituted an offense against the United States, and also an offense against the territory and its local laws, we know of no legal principle which prevented him from becoming subject to punishment by each government, and neither of such punishments would be in contravention of the constitutional inhibition against the twice putting in jeopardy for the same offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Shell Co.
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.