State v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably State v. Tatum (1991), State v. Joyner (1993)
54 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 Chapman v. State of California · Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi · California v. Green · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As long as the trial court finds the requisite indicia of reliability in the former testimony, such as the opportunity to cross-examine the declarant fully, the testimony is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]rior testimony of an unavailable witness is admissible in a subsequent trial as an exception to the hearsay rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.