Murrell v. People’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 1421B · 48 U.S.C. § 1421G · 48 U.S.C. § 1561 · 48 U.S.C. § 1574 · 48 U.S.C. § 1616 · 8 U.S.C. § 1406 (§ 306 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on United States v. Olano · Johnson v. United States · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · United States v. Jackson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the maximum penalty that may be imposed on any defendant for an offense that determines whether the charged offense is a serious crime entitling the defendant to a jury trial, and not the maximum penalty that a judge may, at his or her discretion, impose in a given case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ortiz v. People
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.