United States v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 31 · 1985
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Yousef (2003), United States v. Bilzerian (1991)
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 18 U.S.C. § 1113 · 18 U.S.C. § 1512 · 18 U.S.C. § 1513 · 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Rideout v. United States · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Mills v. Alabama · United Mine Workers, Local No. 1854 v. National Labor Relations Board
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if he or she (1) had the intent to commit the crime, and (2) engaged in conduct amounting to a 'substantial step' towards the commission of the crime.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“more than mere preparation, yet may be less than the last act necessary before the actual commission of the substantive crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the purpose of rebutting the false impression which resulted from ... cross examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kowalski
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.