Martin v. Foltz’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 711 · 1985
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably United States v. Moss (1993), State v. Rogers (1987)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Doyle v. Ohio · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Sandstrom v. Montana · Sumner v. Mata
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]alse exculpatory statements are probative of a guilty conscience and hence of guilt and are admissible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is permitted a certain degree of latitude”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.