Martinez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Garcia (1992), State v. Trujillo (2002)
27 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 Porzig v. Nolden · McGinnis v. Royster · Johnson v. Transportation Agency · State v. Clark · Gruschus Ex Rel. Estate of Adams v. Bureau of Revenue
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a rational and natural basis for confining capital felons to the penitentiary for at least thirty years, and depriving them of meritorious deductions, while at the same time granting noncapital felons the right to seek earlier parole on the basis of meritorious deductions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Franklin
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.