United States v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
883 F.2d 750 · 1989
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 3 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably People v. Hines (1997), United States v. Rewald (1989)
71 federal appellate · 3 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 21 U.S.C. § 842 (§ 402 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 960
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Boykin v. Alabama
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitutionally explicit and more fragile right.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]ducated by television and past courtroom experience”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]o hold that a defendant may abide by his lawyer's advice and not take the stand and then invalidate the trial because he so acted is not fair to the government”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.