United States v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 1528 · 1985
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Nersesian (1987), United States v. Disla (1986)
77 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1510 · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 152 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Texas v. Brown · Sedillo 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the wide range of reasonable professional assistance,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the probative value 'supported by specific facts and circumstances substantially outweighs its prejudicial effect.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is not necessary to show that a defendant actually obstructed justice ... the statutory focus is on an endeavor.”
2 later decisions 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.