Commonwealth v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Barbosa (2010), Commonwealth v. Walker (2011)
39 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Darden v. Wainwright · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Ciampa · Commonwealth v. Andrews
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a plea of guilty by one person is not admissible to prove the guilt of another and may be highly prejudicial”
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.