Commonwealth v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wilson (1998), Commonwealth v. Waite (1996)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 92 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Estelle v. McGuire · Sandstrom v. Montana · Cupp v. Naughten · Francis v. Franklin
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f you do not find the defendant guilty of murder in the first-degree or murder in the second-degree, you shall consider whether the Commonwealth has proved the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the lesser offense of voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a fundamental rule of practice that where a party alleges error in a charge he must bring the alleged error to the attention of the judge in specific terms in order to give the judge an opportunity to rectify the error, if any”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No party may assign as error the giving [of] ... an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, specifying the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection”
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.