Supreme Court· 6/29/2000
Martinez v. Massachusetts
Citations
- 530 U.S. 1281
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “the repeat-offender statutes are sentence enhancement provisions only and do not identify a freestanding crime”
- “the repeat-offender statutes are sentence enhancement provisions only and do not identify a freestanding crime”
- “if the [repeat-offender] indictment is legally deficient, the court is without jurisdiction to try the case”
- substantive drug offense and repeat-offender penalty-enhancement provision properly set forth in separate counts of a single indictment
- “[T]he counts for the current offense and for the repeat offense are viewed as parts of one indictment and charge only one crime with a sentence enhancement provision”
- undercover trooper told defendant he wanted to purchase cocaine; defendant entered trooper’s car and instructed him to stop by a woman, the seller, standing on sidewalk; and defendant told seller what they wanted
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Cited by
22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Commonwealth v. CantyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-11-06· cited 95×
- Commonwealth v. MirandaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2004-05-27· cited 42×
- Alicea v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-08-09· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. SullivanMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2012-07-30· cited 23×
- Commonwealth v. DussaultMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-04-10· cited 19×
- Commonwealth v. HarrisMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-11-05· cited 11×
- Commonwealth v. DominoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2013-06-14· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-03-20· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. WentworthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2019-07-24· cited 7×
- Commonwealth v. OlivierMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-08-10· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. LopezMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-09-06· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. OlivoMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-06-20· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. BuckleyMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2010-01-15· cited 6×
- Commonwealth v. OwenMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-08-26· cited 3×
- Commonwealth v. SylviaMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2016-04-06· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. MirandaMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-09-24· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. MgareshMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2013-02-12· cited 1×
- Commonwealth v. HardinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-12-06
- Commonwealth v. HrycenkoMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2004-06-25
- Commonwealth v. RyanMassachusetts Appeals Court· 2017-10-30
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