Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Silva v. State · Schear v. Board of County Commissioners · Calkins v. Cox Estates · Bober v. New Mexico State Fair · California First Bank 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of duty in any given situation involves an analysis of the relationship of the parties, the plaintiff's injured interests and the defendant's conduct; it is essentially a policy decision based on these factors that the plaintiff's interests are entitled to protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucero v. Salazar“The court must determine as a matter of law whether a particular defendant owes a duty to a particular plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucero v. Salazar
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.