Murray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2006
23 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 Williams v. State · Guster v. State · 171 Tex. Crim. 24 - Vavra v. State · Walker v. State · Tellez v. State
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The statute provides that it is the trial court which must admonish the accused of the range of punishment attached to the offense. The statute is mandatory: It does not allow the defense attorney, or the prosecutor, or the clerk of the court, or anyone but the judge himself, to admonish the accused of the range of punishment."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Goodie v. State · Whitten v. State“"(a) Prior to accepting a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere, the court shall admonish the defendant of: "(1) the range of punishment attached to the offense ..."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Whitten v. State · Fuller v. State“"JUDGE: You plead guilty knowing that the penalty could be up to life imprisonment? "MR. TAYLOR: Yes, sir. "JUDGE: And the lowest you could get, would be what, five years? "MR. DIETZE [Prosecutor]: Assuming he is found guilty, habitual, assuming he is the same person, two previous convictions, it would be automatic life. "JUDGE: You understand all about that, and you still want to plead guilty? "MR. TAYLOR: Yes, sir. "JUDGE: The Court will accept your plea." Article 26.13, supra, provides in part: "(a) Prior to accepting a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere, the court shall admonish the defendant of: "(1) the range of the punishment attached to the offense; ... ". . . "(c) In admonishing the defendant as herein provided, substantial compliance by the court is sufficient, unless the defendant affirmatively shows that he was not aware of the consequences of his plea and that he was misled or harmed by the admonishment of the court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State
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.