Martin v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
203 federal appellate · 28 district · 431 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 870 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000), Walton v. Arizona (1990)
203 federal appellate · 28 district · 431 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Francis v. Franklin
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 870 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in deciding whether there was a reasonable doubt about the sufficiency of the state's proof of the elements of the crime.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Humanik v. Beyer · Couch v. Trickey“indeed, 'all circumstances of justification, excuse, or alleviation'--rested on the defendant.... This was the rule when the Fifth Amendment was adopted, and it was the American rule when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“purposely, and with prior calculation and design, caus[ing] the death of another.”
5 later decisions 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.