Martinez v. Romero’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 807 · 1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2003
6 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Rummel v. Estelle · Oyler v. Boles · United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the conscious exercise of some selectivity in enforcement (of habitual criminal statutes) is not in itself a federal constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierce v. Parratt“(a) certain measure of discretion is inevitable in the performance of the prosecutorial function.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierce v. Parratt
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.