Martinez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably State v. Martin (1984), State v. Donaldson (1983)
4 federal appellate · 56 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Hall v. Cole · National Labor Relations Board v. Plasterers' Local Union No. 79 · 62 Cal. 2d 769 - People v. Perez · Vachon v. New Hampshire
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he federal Constitution requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt on each element of the crime. While entrapment is not a defense of constitutional dimension, requiring the defendant to forego proof beyond [a] reasonable doubt to assert entrapment relieves the [prosecution] of its constitutional burden and is tantamount to requiring him to plead guilty. Where the defenses are not mutually repugnant, this is asking too much.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he rale in favor of inconsistent defenses reflects thebelief ofmodern criminal jurisprudence that a criminal defendant should be accorded every reasonable protection in defending himself against governmental prosecution. That establishedpolicy bespeaks a healthy regard for circumscribing the [government's opportunities for invoking the criminal sanction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.