United States v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 960 · 1978
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably United States v. Williams (1980), United States v. Staller (1980)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Carroll v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Doyle v. Ohio · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Emphasizing the “not at that time” part of the testimony, defendants on appeal argue that it was improper and prejudicial for the Government [sic] witness thus to indicate that the defendants made statements after being warned of their Miranda rights. They argue that this comment raised an impermissible inference in the mind of the jury that some statement was made after the defendants had been warned according to Miranda. This remark cast a burden upon the defendants, they contend, to either produce the statement or permit the inference to remain with the jury that the statement was unfavorable. Of course, the government is not prohibited from introducing statements made by a defendant after receiving Miranda warnings. (Cites omitted). In this case, any dilemma the defendants may have felt to produce the statements or leave an inference with the jury that the statements were adverse was dissolved when the government itself offered the statements through the same witness. Therefore, no impropriety occurred, whether the testimony is viewed in part or as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.