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← 2017 UT 63 - State v. Martin

State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Scheffer · Patterson v. Patterson · Commonwealth v. Dunkle · State v. Larsen · State v. Eldredge

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[C]ourts should consider all relevant facts raised by the parties about the defendant's crime in relation to the harshness of the penalty.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[I]t is certainly not a task that we can require our district courts to perform without prompting or guidance from counsel.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “compare their sentencing schemes to the sentence”
    2 later decisions 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.