State v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Jones v. Commonwealth (1984), State v. Clark (1982)
24 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 Terry v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Williams v. People of State of New York · Procunier v. Martinez
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Maintenance of order or control in a prison has been recognized to be an important, in fact a vital, governmental objective. . . . The institutional consideration of internal security within the correction facilities is central to all correctional goals. . . . Because of the essential need for security and the recognition that courts are ill-equipped to deal with matters of prison administration, wide-ranging deference is given to prison administrators in the exercise of their discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bayaoa“wide discretion, based on [their] assessment of the character and circumstances of a convicted defendant, in deciding whether to grant probation and in imposing conditions to probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Anzalone.
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.