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← 390 S.C. 618 - State v. Torres

State v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

22 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Copeland · State v. Tucker · State v. Brazell · State v. Franklin · State v. Nance

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To be classified as unfairly prejudicial, photographs must have a 'tendency to suggest a decision on an improper basis, commonly, though not necessarily, an emotional one.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “However, photographs calculated to arouse the sympathy or prejudice of the jury should be excluded if they are irrelevant or unnecessary to the issues at trial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “The appellate court reviews [the] trial [court's] ruling on admissibility of evidence pursuant to an abuse of discretion standard. ...”
    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.