Martin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Satcher v. Commonwealth (1992), 2 Va. App. 683 - Hill v. Commonwealth (1986)
26 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 · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Balistrieri v. United States · Bates v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here was nothing `so unnecessarily suggestive' about [the victim's] identification of the defendant that the latter was denied due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to support the jury's finding that the defendant was one of the persons who attempted to rob the [victim].”
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.