566 So. 2d 1201 - Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Heidel v. State (1991), 604 So. 2d 280 - Fleming v. State (1992)
68 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 Michel v. United States · Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n · United States v. Monton · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · McFee 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state could rely on circumstantial evidence, but where a case is based wholly on circumstantial evidence, the state must prove [her] guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to the exclusion of every reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a trial judge may refuse an instruction which incorrectly states the law, is without foundation in the evidence, or is stated elsewhere in the instructions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. State · Harris v. State“[A] lesser included offense instruction should be granted unless the trial judgeand ultimately this Courtcan say, taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the accused, and considering all reasonable favorable inferences which may be drawn in favor of the accused from the evidence, that no reasonable jury could find the defendant guilty of the lesser included offense (and conversely not guilty of at least one essential element of the principal charge.)”
3 later decisions 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.