Mosier v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 62 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably United States v. Wright (1994), Miles v. Dorsey (1995)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · McMann v. Richardson · Holloway v. Arkansas · Kent 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f [an accused] elects to sacrifice himself for such motives, that is his choice ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We recognize that threats to prosecute or promises of leniency to third persons to induce guilty pleas can pose a danger of coercion. Aside from requiring special care to insure that the plea was in fact entered voluntarily and was not the product of coercion, we must respect the defendant’s choice and “[i]f [an accused] elects to sacrifice himself for such motives, that is his choice....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mata 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.