Chavez v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
300 federal appellate · 149 district · 204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,144 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Missouri v. Seibert (2004), Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada Humboldt County et al. (2004)
300 federal appellate · 149 district · 204 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMartinez v. City of Oxnard (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Graham v. Connor · Griffin v. California · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · United States v. Salerno
Cited together with Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Oregon v. Elstad · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Dickerson v. United States
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 1,144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A fundamental right or liberty interest is one that is 'deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition' and 'implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Moya v. Garcia · Moya v. Garcia“shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Curry · Montoya v. Vigil“In the Fifth Amendment context, we have created prophylactic rules designed to safeguard the core constitutional right protected by the Self-Incrimination Clause.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.