Martinez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 2020
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on O'Neil v. State of Vermont · Pearson v. Ramos · Trenton Lynn Hawkins v. Steve Hargett Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e thus find, as we did in Martinez , that the Eighth Amendment analysis focuses on the sentence imposed for each specific crime, not on the cumulative sentence for multiple crimes. To do otherwise would effectively give crimes away.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BEVER v. STATE“is simply because he committed a great many [ ] offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BEVER v. STATE
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.