Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Whalen v. Roe · 106 Wash. 2d 54 - State v. Gunwall · Michigan v. Clifford · State v. Hendrickson · 123 Wash. 2d 173 - State v. Young
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“just because a state constitutional provision has been subject to independent interpretation and found to be more protective in a particular context, it does not follow that greater protection is provided in all contexts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Surge“Given [the] long history of government scrutiny, patients who fill prescriptions for narcotic drugs . . . should reasonably expect that their prescriptions will be available to appropriate government agents.”
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.