Murphy v. Sowders’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 205 · 1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2009
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Weaver v. Graham
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alter the degree, or lessen the amount or measure, of the proof which was made necessary to conviction when the crime was committed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gall v. Parker · Carmell v. Texas“[T]he testimony of a single witness which is assigned a likelihood of truth is sufficient to support a finding of guilt, and would justify a verdict in accordance with such testimony, even though a number of witnesses may have testified to the contrary if, after consideration of all of the evidence in the case, the fact-finder assigns greater belief to the accuracy and reliability of the one witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] jury instruction which violates only state law cannot provide a basis for habeas corpus relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Federico v. Yukins
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.