In Re Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably 35 Cal. 2d 49 - Lorenson v. Superior Court (1950), People v. Nagle (1944)
26 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 9 Cal. App. 262 - People v. Coombs
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘sufficient cause,’ within statute providing that a defendant can only be held to answer when it appears from the evidence that there is sufficient cause to believe that defendant committed offense charged, means the same as ‘reasonable and probable cause,’ and hence a commitment based entirely on hearsay or incompetent evidence is unauthorized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.