United States v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 749 · 1978
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 1992 · most notably 93 Wis. 2d 278 - Elias v. State (1980), State v. Melton (1983)
29 federal appellate · 5 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)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Bowdach · United States v. Ashley
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'At a sentencing, a Court can consider many matters that might not be admissible at trial including evidence of crimes for which the defendant has been indicted but not convicted, and evidence of other crimes.' United States v. Bowdach, 561 F.2d 1160 , 1175 (5th Cir. 1977). 79 The district court did not err in taking notice of the factual basis of the dismissed count in determining sentence. To hold otherwise would be to hold that the circumstances of the other counts' dismissal somehow sanitized the facts upon which they were based, so that the court could consider some but not all of the defendant's life situation in determining a proper individual sentence for him. To be sure, the court could not sentence Martinez on the dismissed counts, and clearly it did not do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence underlying crimes for which the defendant has been indicted but not convicted,”
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.