State v. Martini’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably State v. Marshall (1997), State v. Godsey (2001)
2 district · 43 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to statistically-relevant measures of culpability, such as the infliction of severe pain or mental suffering on the victim, a contemporaneous sexual assault or robbery, and the commission of prior murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper · State v. DiFrisco“[a] death sentence is comparatively excessive if other defendants with similar characteristics generally receive sentences other than death for committing factually similar offenses in the same jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Cooper · State v. DiFrisco“Using two sets of data, one including defendant's case and one excluding it, will give us the broadest picture of societal standards while alerting us to the bias produced by including defendant's case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper · State v. DiFrisco
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.