Torres v. El Paso Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Herrera Ex Rel. Estate of Ruiz v. Quality Pontiac (2003), Barry v. Quality Steel Products, Inc. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 66 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 Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · 18 Cal. 4th 1 - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center v. Superior Court · 166 Ill. 2d 188 - Boyd v. Travelers Insurance · Smith v. Howard Johnson Co. · Scott v. Rizzo
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tlhe doctrine [of su perseding cause] reflects traditional notions of proximate causation and the need to limit potentially limitless Hability arising from mere cause in fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In Coleman , we followed California, Alaska, and Ohio in recognizing the tort of intentional spoliation of evidence. We noted, however, that a majority of jurisdictions had rejected a separate cause of action for intentional spoliation of evidence and had chosen, instead, to rely exclusively on traditional remedies, such as sanctions for discovery violations or an instruction to the jury that spoliation gives rise to a permissible inference that the evidence would have been unfavorable to the spoliator. Since our decision in Coleman, the high courts of other states, including California, the state in which a separate cause of action for spoliation found its genesis, have now joined the majority of jurisdictions in relying solely on traditional remedies rather than recognizing a separate tort ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it is clear that the facts and inferences are so strongly and overwhelmingly in favor of the moving party that the judge believes that reasonable people could not arrive at a contrary result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.