Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 144th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Cobb v. State · Jackson v. State · Jones v. State · Battle v. State · Bryant 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person who uses force in order to shake off an officer's detaining grip, whether by pushing or pulling, may be guilty of resisting arrest”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MDH
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.