Robert E. Westberry v. Ward E. Murphy, Acting Warden’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 1333 · 1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2005
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · State v. Lafferty · State v. Wallace
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“free to hold that the intentional commission of a felony causing death falls within the statutory definition of 'malice aforethought'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watkins v. Callahan
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.