Martinez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2021
19 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 United States v. Tucker · Offutt v. United States · United States v. Lai · United States v. Lai-Moi Leung · United States v. Borrero-Isaza
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial judge may not . . . consider a defendant’s nationality or ethnicity in its sentence determination; consideration of these facts violates a defendant’s right to due process. Thus, the district court. . . violate[s] appellants’ due process rights, if it based its sentencing decision, in part, upon appellants ’ status as illegal aliens. 5”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“discretion . . . to consider a wide, largely unlimited variety of information to insure that the punishment fits not only the crime, but also the individual defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newman v. State
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.