State v. Ortega’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Fuerschbach v. Southwest Airlines Co. (2006), State v. Padilla (1997)
4 federal appellate · 19 district · 16 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 Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel, Inc. · State v. Isiah · State v. JCE · State Ex Rel. State Highway Department v. Strosnider · Morgan v. Loyacomo
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the person of the other or a third person, or an imminent apprehension of such a contact, and (b) an offensive contact with the person of the other directly or indirectly results.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Battery is the unlawful, intentional touching or application of force to the person of another, when done in a rude, insolent or angry manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the elements of civil and criminal assault and battery are essentially identical.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.