State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably State v. Estencion (1981), State v. Stachler (1977)
49 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 United States v. McCoy · State v. Kunz · State v. Sacoco · United States v. Brown · Leach 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nherent in the court's power in the disposition of a matter properly before [it was] the power to grant or deny, where applicable, a motion for DAG plea. While this practice [was] not expressly incorporated in any statutory provision, such power [was] necessarily implicit in the proper and orderly administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sentencing judge, arbitrarily and capriciously, refuses to entertain at any time a seasonable and proper motion made by a defendant for a DAG plea, ... such judicial conduct is improper, and prejudicially denies appellant due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sakamoto“[i]t is also abundantly clear that[,] when properly exercised, the judge's discretionary action[, such as granting or denying a DAG or DANC plea,] will not be disturbed ... unless there has been a plain and manifest abuse of such a discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sakamoto
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.