State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1999
9 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 State v. Taylor · State v. Gamache · State v. Fields · State v. Bridges · State v. Broomfield
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court is in a much better position than this court to evaluate the effect upon others of a venireman’s voir dire comments, and the handling of the matter must be entrusted largely to its discretion. On the record before us, it has not been demonstrated that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to grant a mistrial . . . ” State v. Murphy, supra at 718 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gash“The trial court, having heard both the venireman's words and his tone of voice, was the best judge of any possible prejudicial impact on the jury.”
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.