State v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably United States v. Welch (2003), Manzanares v. Byington (2012)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Morissette v. United States · Powell v. Texas · In Re Halverson · Hall v. Utah State Department of Corrections · Jensen v. Intermountain Health Care, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When interpreting statutes, our primary goal is to evince the true intent and purpose of the Legislature.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“When examining the statutory language we assume the legislature used each term advisedly and in accordance with its ordinary meaning.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State ex rel. Z.C. · State v. Jeffs“the plain language of the statute itself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.