State v. Torrence’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 314 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 347 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Simmons v. South Carolina (1994), State v. James (1996)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 314 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 Harris v. State of South Carolina · Childs v. State · State v. Adams · State v. Atkins · State v. Matthews
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 347 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sought only to have the court declare correct and current law relevant to his case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simmons
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.