State v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably State v. Higgins (2003), State v. Robert H. (2005)
25 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Golding · Chiarella v. United States · Rewis v. United States · Cole v. State of Arkansas
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acting with the intent to cause serious physical injury to another person, [he] performed a substantial step in the course of conduct planned to culminate in the commission of the crime, to wit: arming himself with a deadly weapon, going to Allen Drive, and shooting one Will Little.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as the state's case went in, as the state argued to the jury and as the trial court charged the jury, the defendant could and did understand that Little was the `another person' whom the defendant was charged with having attempted to assault in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if you are not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was the shooter of Will Little, then you are required to return a verdict of not guilty as to count three;”
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.