Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
34 district · 158 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Herrera Ex Rel. Estate of Ruiz v. Quality Pontiac (2003), Azar v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2003)
34 district · 158 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Silva v. State · Schear v. Board of County Commissioners · Calkins v. Cox Estates · Methola v. County of Eddy
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 203 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the particular domain of the legislature, as the voice of the people, to make public policy.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Court of Appeals held that as a matter of policy the duty to investigate and the duty to exercise ordinary care should not be extended to the victims in this case because it would be `unrealistic in light of rising criminal activity and limited public resources.' Although `rising criminal activity' and `limited public resources' may be factors for the jury to consider in determining whether APD or DPS breached its duties, . . . and while these factors may bear upon the discharge of duty, they do not bear upon the existence of the statutory duty of law enforcement officers to investigate crimes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[L]egislature has enunciated no policy that gives rise to arbitrary time and place restrictions on the duty of law enforcement officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wachocki v. Bcsd
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.