Murphy v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Under certain circumstances, it is reasonable for a police officer to infer that items will be found in a specific place. ... No more is required than a fair presumption; the probabilities are with the officer’s conclusion.”
• law requires indictment to show that dwelling was occupied by the victim
• “ ‘Ownership’, as that term is used in property law, is not an essential ingredient to proving that the premises entered were ‘the dwelling house of another’ within the meaning of our burglary law ... [a]ll that is required was that ... it was occupied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-12-05· cited 257×
• McClain v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-11-12· cited 179×
• Gilreath v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-06-30· cited 155×
• Sterling v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-10-21· cited 64×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-10-16· cited 44×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2022-05-17· cited 35×
• Duckworth v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-11-05· cited 29×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-06-21· cited 29×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-03-17· cited 25×
• Brinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-04-29· cited 17×
• Smarr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-09-07· cited 17×
• Nash v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-16· cited 14×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-03-03· cited 13×
• Kennard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-10· cited 10×
• Huntley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-05-26· cited 10×
• Mathews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-16· cited 10×
• State v. Singley
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2011-04-04· cited 10×
• Wilcox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-03-05· cited 8×
• Nix v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-02-06· cited 8×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-09-13· cited 8×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aguilar v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-15· cited 7,289×
• Spinelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 6,223×
• People v. Dolgin
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1953-05-20· cited 73×
• Dobbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-01-06· cited 72×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-11-09· cited 45×
• Yarborough v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1890-12-23· cited 25×
• People v. Wright
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1962-09-10· cited 18×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-10-09· cited 15×
• Trice v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1902-12-09· cited 11×
• Ashton v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1881-09-15· cited 6×
• Hatfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1886-04-20· cited 6×
• City of Marietta v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1969-04-24· cited 4×