State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1,082 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,094 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Leonard (2004), State v. Yarbrough (2002)
2 federal appellate · 1,082 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Zant v. Stephens · State v. Steffen · State v. Green · State v. Green · State v. Middlebrooks
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin
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 1,094 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has consistently stated that allowing alternate jurors to be present during jury deliberations is error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an alternate juror who does not replace a regular juror shall be discharged after the jury retires to consider its verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.