Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

cited by 42 later decisions

states following

May 2017

most recently cited

42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 497 So. 2d 863 - Johnston v. State (1986), 679 So. 2d 710 - Pope v. State (1996)

42 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 Brown v. State · Brown v. State · 199 So. 2d 100 - State v. Cole · 336 So. 2d 65 - State v. Terry · 250 So. 2d 318 - Appell 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[I]n cases such as that under review the trial judge need not worry about invading the province of the jury if he restricts his instructions to those involving lawful and unlawful homicide. As pointed out by the District Court, “What we have here is the death of a human being which was either unlawful homicide or lawful homicide.” The death of the victim is not in issue; it is an incontrovertible fact. The jury’s duty is to ascertain whether the defendant caused the victim’s death, and, if so, whether the homicide was justifiable or unjustifiable. If the jury finds that an unlawful homicide has occurred, they must then determine what degree of murder or manslaughter is involved.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Simone · Humphrey v. State
“appropriately instruct[s] the jury as to all degrees of murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, and excusable homicide, all having to do with the death of the victim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Simone · State v. Waff
“In this case, it is specifically held that in cases involving homicide, proper jury instructions are limited to those charges involving lawful and unlawful homicide.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 531 So. 2d 338 - State v. Barritt · 517 So. 2d 65 - Barritt 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.