Murphy v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 673B · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E · 42 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Russello v. United States · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he word 'shall' usually creates a mandate, not a liberty, so the verb phrase 'shall be applied' tells us that the district court has some nondiscretionary duty to perform.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Panel's instruction comes in terms of the mandatory 'shall,' which normally creates an obligation impervious to judicial discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress ... intend[ed] sub silentio to enact statutory language that it ... earlier discarded in favor of other language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.