Martinez v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the Legislature had a rational basis for precluding good time credit eligibility for individuals serving a life sentence
• holding that the Legislature had a rational basis for precluding good time credit eligibility for individuals serving a life sentence
• holding that capital felons must be imprisoned for at least thirty years before being given a parole hearing, regardless of any meritorious deductions allowed to non-capital felons
• holding that an inmate sentenced to life imprisonment is not entitled to have the mandatory thirty-year sentence reduced based on good time credits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Garcia
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1992-08-10· cited 233×
• State v. Trujillo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2002-02-05· cited 229×
• State v. Tafoya
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2010-04-28· cited 83×
• Clark v. Tansy
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-09-07· cited 71×
• State v. Neely
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-09-20· cited 43×
• Compton v. Lytle
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2003-11-05· cited 32×
• Old Abe Co. v. New Mexico Mining Commission
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-10-24· cited 29×
• Thompson & Tomada Enterprises, Inc. v. McKinley County
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-08-20· cited 12×
• State v. Franklin
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2018-02-15· cited 8×
• Sena v. New Mexico Corrections Department
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-05-14· cited 3×
• Woodward v. Heredia
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-08-18· cited 3×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McGinnis v. Royster
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 618×
• State v. Clark
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1989-03-09· cited 106×
• Gruschus Ex Rel. Estate of Adams v. Bureau of Revenue
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1965-02-08· cited 51×
• State v. Aqui
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1986-06-24· cited 38×
• City of Santa Rosa v. Jaramillo
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1973-12-07· cited 19×
• Perea v. Board of Torrance County Commissioners
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1967-03-20· cited 14×
• Jones v. Jenkins
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 14×
• Martinez v. Cox
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1965-08-23· cited 11×
• Parker v. Percy
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1981-11-24· cited 8×