State v. Torrez’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 1991 · most notably State v. McCall (1983), State v. Adamson (1983)
36 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Nathanson v. United States · Haines v. Kerner
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable grounds to believe that an offense is being or has been committed by the person arrested * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wiley · State v. Lawson““We are aware of the fact that affidavit disclosed that another informant had been ‘advised’ that appellant would not allow anyone to whom he was selling heroin to come to his home because ‘he kept large quantities of narcotics (heroin) in his residence.’ This information constitutes double hearsay, and since there was no demonstration of the advisor’s reliability, we find that the first prong of Aguilar is unsatisfied. United States v. Wilson, 479 F.2d 936, 941 (7th Cir. 1973).” 112 Ariz. at 530 , 544 P.2d at 212 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moody“Can it fairly be said that the tip, even when certain parts of it have been corroborated by independent sources, is as trustworthy as a tip which would pass Aguilar’s tests without independent corroboration?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turney
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.