Marta v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Bangs v. State (1999), Baughman v. State (2003)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Sanford v. State · Passley v. State · Bell v. State · McGhee v. State · Bailey 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defense counsel: Your Honor, at this time I would move for a directed verdict. I feel like the State has not met its burden of proof regarding the capital murder. They have not shown it was Wallace Gardner, first of all. I think there’s been several different — the Joe Kendall gave several different descriptions about the person and said several different times that he didn’t know the person, never saw their face, many different things that caused him to question the identity. Also, I would add that there’s no showing that this was committed in the course or in furtherance of an aggravated robbery. There’s been no showing of anything taken, no money, no drugs taken. There’s been —Joe Kendall said that he never saw anybody with a gun, there was never anything going on that indicated a robbery. And in DeAngelo Smith’s first sworn statement, he said that it was no robbery. I think the State’s not met its burden of proof with regard to that, and that would be my same argument for the aggravated robbery count. Also, to simply say that as far as there’s also not been sufficient corroboration of — of DeAngelo Smith’s statement regarding this incident. The Court: Okay. In viewing the light most favorable to the State and in viewing the evidence and the testimony in the light most favorable to the State, which I believe is my standard at this point in time during the trial, I’ll deny the defense’s motions for directed verdict ...[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gardner v. State“A conviction cannot be had in any case of felony upon the testimony of an accomplice unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense. The corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows that the offense was committed and the circumstances thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson v. State
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.