State v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Gonzales (1992), State v. Flores (2010)
2 federal appellate · 32 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
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Frazier v. Cupp · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · State v. Vogenthaler · State v. Smith
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the declaration should be spontaneous, made before there is time for fabrication, and made under the stress of the moment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · State v. MacIas““Lujan said, ‘They’re going to rape him.’ That they had taken him outside. And then I said, ‘No, they’re going to kill him.’ And then he [Lujan] added, ‘I believe so.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martinez v. Sullivan“[a] statement describing or explaining an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition, or immediately thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MacIas
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.