State v. Martel’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Whitesell (2000), Long v. State (1996)
77 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Screws v. United States · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent · Colautti v. Franklin
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A person commits the offense of stalking if the person purposely or knowingly causes another person substantial emotional distress or reasonable apprehension of bodily injury or death by repeatedly: (a) following the stalked person; or (b) harassing, threatening, or intimidating the stalked person, in person or by phone, by mail, or by other action, device, or method. (2) This section does not apply to a constitutionally protected activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Words such as `repeatedly,' `harassing,' and `intimidating' have commonly understood meanings. `Repeatedly' means `more than once.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a whole, without isolating specific terms from the context in which they are used by the Legislature.”
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.