Adams v. Murphy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reversing defendant's conviction for attempted perjury after Florida Supreme Court explained that there was no such offense under Florida law because \[n]owhere in this country can any man be condemned for a nonexistent crime\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dobbert v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-07· cited 88×
• People v. Davis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2009-05-21· cited 67×
• Clark v. Crosby
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-07-02· cited 47×
• State v. Sykes
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-07· cited 46×
• Achin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-01-21· cited 40×
• Thomas Charles Kleve v. D. R. Hill, Warden Cci j.gomez Attorney General of the State of California Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-03-16· cited 17×
• Mayeux v. Belt
  W.D. Louisiana· 1990-02-12· cited 16×
• Adams v. Murphy
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-08-14· cited 8×
• State v. Campbell
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1995-05-03· cited 7×
• Harold Batiste v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-04-09· cited 4×
• Oscar Thomas v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-28
• State of Tennessee v. Trutonio Yancey and Bernard McThune
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-09-17
• State of Tennessee v. Michael L. Powell and Randall S. Horne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-05-10
• Mark Stephen Foster v. Jonathan Lebo, Warden
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2017-09-29
• State of Tennessee v. Jeremiah Devon Cohill
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-05-20

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Adams v. Murphy
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-29· cited 29×
• Edward Alfred Smedberg v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-08-24· cited 17×
• William Robert Grier v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-01-26· cited 4×