Martinez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2016
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 175th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Carrillo v. State · Banks v. State · Beggs v. State · Esquivel v. State · Heredia v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) intentionally or knowingly: (A) causes the penetration of the ... female sexual organ of another person who is not the spouse of the actor by any means, without that person’s consent; [[Image here]] (b) A sexual assault under Subsection (a)(1) of this section is without the consent of the other person if: [[Image here]] (4) the actor knows that as a result of mental disease or defect the other person is at the time of the sexual assault incapable either of appraising the nature of the act or of resisting it;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wootton 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.