State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Coe v. Bell (1998), State v. Brown (1992)
8 federal appellate · 28 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Francis v. Franklin · Jones v. Howard · State v. Duncan · State v. Dicks
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If it is shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the alleged victim was killed, the killing is presumed to be malicious, in the absence of evidence which would rebut the implied presumption.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Repeated blows or shots may support an inference of premeditation. See Houston v. State, 593 S.W.2d 267, 273 (Tenn.1980). It is also possible that the jury could have found that during the struggle [with the victim] appellant decided to kill the victim, only a moment of time being required between the plan to kill and its execution. Clarke v. State, 218 Tenn. 259 , 402 S.W.2d 863, 868 (1966).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown“They are merely “patterns” or suggestions and serve no other purpose. It is the responsibility of the trial judge to prepare the jury instructions, and while previously printed forms may be convenient, these must be revised or supplemented if necessary in order to state the applicable law fully and accurately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dulsworth
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.