Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 11 Cal. 4th 568 - People v. Estrada (1995), Cromwell v. State (1980)
37 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 Phillips v. State · Jett v. State · Benson v. State · Wooten v. State · WOOTBN v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“For the most part, battery in the first degree comprehends only life-endangering conduct. The severity of punishment authorized is warranted by the conjunction of severe injury and a wanton or purposeful culpable mental state. Each subsection describes conduct that would produce murder liability if death resulted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Murder in the second degree. — (1) A person commits murder in the second degree if: (a) with the purpose of causing the death of another person, he causes the death of any person; or (b) he knowingly causes the death of another person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or (c) with the purpose of causing serious physical injury to another person, he causes the death of any person. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.