State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 247 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Hill (1996)
3 federal appellate · 247 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. Wade · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Gilbert v. California · Kirby v. Illinois · State v. Maurer
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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Relevant evidence' means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order for appellant to succeed on this proposition, he must show that the trial court abused its discretion in the admission * * * and that the appellant has been materially prejudiced thereby.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in situations in which the state is required to show possession of a murder weapon by the defendant to establish its case, it is permissible to allow into evidence proof of other criminal acts committed by the defendant which tend to establish possession, even though such evidence incidentally tends to prove commission of crimes other than the one with which the defendant is charged”
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.