Adams v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 224 · 1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Smedberg v. United States · Adams v. Murphy · Adams v. Murphy · Grier v. United States
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.
“[n]owhere in this country can any man be condemned for a nonexistent crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kleve v. Hill · Kleve v. Hill“`attempted perjury' as a lesser-included offense,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Defense] counsel did not merely invite, he demanded the erroneous charge given. Even so, [the defendant] must go free . . .. [0]rily a legislature can denounce crimes . . .. Nowhere in this country can any man be condemned for a nonexistent crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.