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38 Cal. 2d 556 - People v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis

1952

Citation profile

57
cited by 57 later decisions
2
states following
June 2012
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably 40 Cal. 2d 876 - People v. Daugherty (1953), 42 Cal. 2d 246 - People v. Ashley (1954)

3 federal appellate · 51 state decisions

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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 People v. Wells · 27 Cal. 2d 164 - People v. Bender · 25 Cal. 2d 341 - People v. Wilson · People v. Tubby · 5 Cal. 2d 714 - People v. Ottey

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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"Murder is perpetrated by torture `when "the assailant's intent was to cause cruel suffering on the part of the object of the attack, either for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or to satisfy some other untoward propensity." People v. Tubby, 34 Cal.2d 72, 77 , 207 P.2d 51, 54 ; People v. Bender, 27 Cal.2d 164, 177 , 163 P.2d 8 .' People v. Martinez, 38 Cal.2d 556, 561 , 241 P.2d 224, 227 ."”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. McKenzie · State v. McKenzie
  2. “All murder which is perpetrated by means of ... lying in wait ... or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing ... is murder of the first degree.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. People v. Sutic
  3. “supervise and regulate the course of a trial”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 48 Cal. 2d 551 - People v. Corrigan

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.