Murphy v. Kellar’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 290 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Graves v. Hampton (1993), Davis v. Kelly (1998)
8 federal appellate ·
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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Rizzo v. Goode · Owens v. Okure · Coppedge v. United States · Adkins v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. the type and complexity of the case; 2. the petitioner’s ability adequately to present and investigate his case; 3. the presence of evidence which largely consists of conflicting testimony so as to require skill in presentation of evidence and in cross-examination; and 4. the likelihood that appointment will benefit the petitioner, the court, and the defendants by “shortening the trial and assisting in just determination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Carpenter“Under federal law, a cause of action accrues `when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of the action.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“specify the personal involvement of each defendant.”
1 later decision 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.