Murray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2005
19 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 Estes v. Texas · Hall v. Pinto · State v. Goettina · Russell v. State · Chavez 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Direct evidence ordinarily consists of witnesses testifying directly of their own knowledge as to the ultimate facts sought to be proved. * * * `Circumstantial evidence is the proof of collateral facts and circumstances from which the mind arrives at the conclusion that the main fact sought to be established in fact existed.' * * * * * * "Circumstantial evidence is not necessarily inferior to direct evidence. In some instances it may be stronger and more persuasive. * * * Circumstances, when taken together and considered in their totality together with all reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom, may be subject to different interpretations; but, that is for the jury." Murray v. State, Wyo., 671 P.2d 320, 328 (1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. [Whether] “[t]he trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion for change of venue, which motion alleged that extensive pre-trial publicity made it impossible to select a fair and impartial jury.” 2. [Whether] “[t]he trial court erred in denying appellant’s motion for judg ment of acquittal since there was insufficient evidence upon which the jury could base a verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. State
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.