Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Blankenship v. State (1984), Dunn v. State (1991)
39 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Crist v. Bretz
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... a defendant need not himself have the skill and experience of a lawyer in order competently and intelligently to choose self-representation, ..."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State · Neal v. State“The Faretta opinion simply cannot reasonably be read to require that a trial judge spread upon the record all such information and data about an accused that might conceivably impugn his decision to represent himself....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambrecht v. State
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.