Martinez v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1996
10 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 Stambaugh v. Hayes · Griego v. Conwell · Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Horne · Bolt v. Davis · Padilla v. Winsor
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [Tjhere is a total absence of proof or permissible inference * * * to excuse or explain the presence of decedent’s car in the wrong lane.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.