655 So. 2d 881 - Murrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 909 So. 2d 731 - Dilworth v. State (2005), Bounds v. State (1997)
27 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 Burks v. United States · Roberts v. Louisiana · United States v. Brown · 337 So. 2d 1242 - Jackson v. State · 478 So. 2d 1017 - Harper 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of simple assault if he (a) attempts to cause or purposely, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another; or (b) negligently causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon or other means likely to produce death or serious bodily harm; or (c) attempts by physical menace to put another in fear of imminent serious bodily harm;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[if] you determine from the evidence that the attempted arrest is unlawful, the Defendant may use reasonable force as is necessary to effect his escape, but no more. If you find from the evidence that this is what happened, you should find the Defendant not guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the] right to resist is limited to those situations where the arrest is, in fact, illegal, and the arrestor and arrestee have reason to know that it is or where the arrest is accompanied by excessive force.”
2 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.