Commonwealth v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Voutour v. Vitale (1985), Wardlaw v. Pickett (1993)
3 federal appellate · 57 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on People v. Carmen · Florists' Nationwide Telephone Delivery Network-America's Phone-Order Florists, Inc. v. Florists' Telegraph Delivery Ass'n · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. Vanderpool · United States v. Grimes
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may depend in part upon the relationship of the persons involved.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is hardly conceivable that the law ... should mark as criminal those who intervene to protect others.... To the fear of involvement and of injury to oneself if one answered a call for help would be added the fear of possible criminal prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wardlaw v. Pickett
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.