People v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably People v. Raffaelli (1982), State v. Price (2006)
33 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 Tumey v. State of Ohio · Lego v. Twomey · Harthun v. DISTRICT COURT IN & FOR SECOND JUD. DIST.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court not only moved sua sponte for the admission of the transcript of the preliminary hearing into evidence, but called witnesses for the People, examined them and cross-examined defense witnesses. He made sua sponte objections to defense counsel's questions and ruled on objections made to his own questions many leading ones.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this assumption of the role of advocate ... [was] inconsistent with the proper function of the judiciary and constitute [d] reversible error,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“active role in the presentation of the prosecution 's case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.