State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 36 Cal. 4th 510 - People v. Davis (2005), State v. Benson (1992)
71 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Hudson v. Palmer · Sedillo v. United States · Boyd v. North Carolina
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If special instructions are desired, they should be submitted in writing to the trial judge at or before the jury instruction conference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is a reasonable possibility that, had the error not been committed, a different result would have been reached at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“On cross-examination, inquiry is allowable into relevant specific instances of conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCarthy
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.