Martinez v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
373 F.2d 810 · 1967
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably United States v. Sullivan (1990), United States v. Groessel (1971)
86 federal appellate · 10 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 Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Lopez v. United States · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Masciale v. United States
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Entrapment occurs when the criminal design or conduct originates in or is the product of the minds of the government officials and is implanted by them in the mind of an otherwise innocent person.” Also see Harris v. United States, 402 F.2d 464 (10th Cir. 1968).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the facts and circumstances of the case show conclusively that entrapment occurred, the trial judge has a duty to find that entrapment, as a matter of law, exists in the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It may be described as an affirmative or positive defense and is in the nature of a confession and avoidance. It cannot be applicable to the facts of a particular case unless the commission of the crime charged is admitted by the accused raising the defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.