State v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1984 · most notably Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres (1960), State v. Heisler (1954)
45 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 Powell v. State · Pinder v. State · Territory of New Mexico v. Emilio · State v. Archuleta · State v. Finkelstein
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A very proper practice in such cases is to inquire into the circumstances under which the confession was alleged to have been made, in the absence of the jury, and for the court to determine from such evidence whether the confession was voluntary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gruender
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.