Commonwealth v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Henderson (2011), Commonwealth v. Crayton (2014)
57 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 Barker v. Wingo · Stovall v. Denno · Bates v. State Bar · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Fearance v. Scott
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.
“[f]ailure of the police to pursue alternate identification procedures does not in itself render an identification unduly suggestive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mugshots may be admitted in evidence where '[1] the prosecution shows some need for their introduction, [2] they are offered in a form that does not imply a prior criminal record, and [3] the manner of their introduction does not call attention to their source.' " Commonwealth v. Martin , 447 Mass. 274 , 286 (2006), quoting from Commonwealth v. McAfee , 430 Mass. 483 , 493 (1999). The victim testified that at the time of the offense the defendant "was a lot stronger, more muscular and maybe he weighed more”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“by a preponderance of the evidence that the showup was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification as to deny [him] due process of law.”
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.