United States v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 714 · 1990
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Chapman v. United States (1991), United States v. Simmons (1992)
54 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Bokum Resources Corp. v. Long Island Lighting Co. · United States v. Evidente · United States v. Gooden
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“basing sentencing on the quantity of drugs without regard to purity is reasonably related to the proper legislative purpose of penalizing large-volume drug traffickers more harshly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough the sentences are stringent, we hold that they do not violate the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Cisneros“present age is irrelevant to the validity of his sentences under the Eighth Amendment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Cisneros
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.