State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2000 · most notably State v. McCollum (1993), State v. Stokes (1987)
11 federal appellate · 50 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia · Wingo v. Wedding
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only in those situations where the evidence showed that the murder was committed in such a way as to amount to a conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Dixon · Smith v. Dixon“requires ... evidence that the murder in question involved brutality in excess of that which is normally present in any killing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Smith v. Dixon · Smith v. Dixon“conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Dixon · Smith v. Dixon
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.