State v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Woodson v. North Carolina · United States v. Gagnon · California v. Ramos
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Death, in its finality, differs more from life imprisonment than a 100-year prison term differs from one of only a year or two.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The extraordinary penalty of death demands heightened scrutiny of its imposition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]his Court believes that death indeed is different from other sanctions and thus requires greater scrutiny.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fry v. Lopez
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.