State v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Ross (1994), McCutcheon & Burr, Inc. v. Berman (1991)
59 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 Garrett v. United States · Brown v. North Carolina · State v. Badgett · State Ex Rel. Pensacola News-Journal, Inc. v. Fleet · State v. Rodriguez
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court shall automatically transfer from the docket for juvenile matters to the regular criminal docket of the Superior Court the case of any child charged with the commission of a capital felony, a class A or B felony or a violation of section 53a-54d, provided such offense was committed after such child attained the age of fourteen years .... The child shall be arraigned in the regular criminal docket of the Superior Court at the next court date following such transfer .... The file of any case so transferred shall remain sealed until the end of the tenth working day following such arraignment unless the state's attorney has filed a motion pursuant to this subsection, in which case * such file shall remain sealed until the court makes a decision on the motion. A state's attorney may, not later than ten working days after such arraignment, file a motion to transfer the case of any child charged with the commission of a class B felony or a violation of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 53a-70 to the docket for juvenile matters for proceedings in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The court sitting for the regular criminal docket shall, after hearing and not later than ten working days after the filing of such motion, decide such motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Samuel M.“Upon the effectuation of the transfer, such child shall stand trial and be sentenced, if convicted, as if such child were seventeen years of age. ... If the action is dismissed or nolled or if such child is found not guilty of the charge for which such child was transferred or of any lesser included offenses, the child shall resume such child's status as a juvenile until such child attains the age of eighteen years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Samuel M.“The additional protections afforded juveniles ... demonstrate the legislature's intent that children accused of wrongdoing be accorded different treatment from adults.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Samuel M.
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.