44 Cal. 3d 1 - In Re Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 5 Cal. 4th 750 - In Re Clark (1993), 2 Cal. 4th 408 - People v. Mincey (1992)
3 federal appellate · 121 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 Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · Chambers v. Mississippi · Benton v. Maryland · Washington v. Texas
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“They include, for example, statements to defense witnesses to the effect that they would be prosecuted for any crimes they reveal or commit in the course of their testimony. [Citations.] They also include statements to defense witnesses warning they would suffer untoward consequences in other cases if they were to testify on behalf of the defense. [Citations.] Finally, they include arresting a defense witness before he or other defense witnesses have given their testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“need show only that [the prosecutor] engaged in activity that was wholly unnecessary to the proper performance of his duties and of such a character as 'to transform [a defense witness] from a willing witness to one who would refuse to testify ....' [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he would be well-advised to remind his client that, if she testified at [the defendant’s] trial, she could be reindicted if she incriminated herself during that testimony”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Feaster
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.