Martinez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2023
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rhode Island v. Innis · Miller v. Fenton · Wilson v. State · Bloomquist 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tlhe agreement that must be shown to support a conviction of a conspiracy to commit a crime is not the same as the "meeting of the minds" demanded for a contract. In Bigelow [v. State], 768 P.2d [558] at 562 [ (Wyo.1989) ], we said: "One might suppose that the agreement necessary for conspiracy is essentially like the agreement or 'meeting of the minds' which is critical to a contract, but this is not the case. Although there continues to exist some uncertainty as to the precise meaning of [the] word in the context of conspiracy, it is clear that the definition in this setting is somewhat more lax than elsewhere. A mere tacit understanding will suffice, and there need not be any written statement or even a speaking of words which expressly communicates agreement."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Remmick v. State · Ekholm v. State“the evidence must show beyond a reasonable doubt that the parties to the conspiracy voluntarily agreed to commit an offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether all the evidence which was presented is adequate enough to form the basis for a reasonable inference of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to be drawn by a finder of fact when that evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the State.... We will not substitute our judgment for that of the jury when we are applying this rule; our only duty is to determine whether a quorum of reasonable and rational individuals would, or even could, have come to the same result as the Jury actually did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vanvorst v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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