Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
April 2014
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Ring v. Arizona · Gregory v. Frontier Materials, Inc. · Foss v. Foss · Texas v. New Mexico
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the application contains sufficient specific facts establishing that the current claims and issues have not been and could not have been presented previously in a timely original application or in a previously considered application filed under this section, because the factual or legal basis for the claim was unavailable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is that finding, not the weighing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances, that authorizes jurors to consider imposing a sentence of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. State
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.