State v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2021
10 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 State v. Petree · State v. Howell · 28 Utah 2d 108 - State v. Madsen · State v. Bradshaw · State v. Wynia
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.
“A trial court's determination that there was a proper foundation for the admission of evidence ... [is reviewed for] an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before a physical object or substance connected with the commission of a crime is admissible in evidence there must be a showing that the proposed exhibit is in substantially the same condition as at the time of [the] crime. The cireumstances surrounding the preservation and custody of the article and the likelihood of tampering are factors to be considered in determining its admissibility. -If after consideration of these factors the trial court is satisfied that the article or substance has not been changed or altered, [it] may permit its introduction into evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“weigh the evidence based on its assessment of the showing of chain of custody.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.