Martinez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Burriss (1999), Riddle v. State (1994)
5 federal appellate · 19 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 Fielder v. State · Booth v. State · Halliburton v. State · 85 Tex. Crim. 565 - Merritt v. State · Sanders 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is justified in using deadly force against another: (1) if he would be justified in using force against the other in Section 9.31 of this code; (2) if a reasonable person in the actor’s situation would not have retreated; and (3) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary: (A) to protect himself against the other’s use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ceasar v. State“[W]here a defendant disclaims intent to kill or injure by alleging accident, he is not prevented from obtaining an instruction on self-defense where it is otherwise appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mejia v. Stephens“could inure regardless of whether the discharge of the pistol was accidental or otherwise”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mejia v. Stephens
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.