Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Todd v. State (1980), Vanderbilt v. State (1981)
45 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Mutscher v. State · Young v. State · Curtis v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... Further, the allegation that the informer had given information in the past ‘regarding narcotic traffic’ which had proven to be correct, when interpreted in a realistic and common sense manner, indicates the informer’s familiarity with controlled substances. Torres v. State, supra, at 824.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hammond v. State · Palmer v. State““Affiant, Officer J. D. James, is a Dallas Police Officer and is assigned to the Vice Control Division, Drug Abuse Section of the Dallas Police Department. “Affiant was contacted by a confidential reliable informant who stated that he was inside apartment 3862 Goldman Road within the past twenty four hours and that he observed the black male known to him as Weldon sell another black male one paper of heroin for the sum of twenty five dollars. The confidential reliable informant stated that Weldon had a large number of twenty five dollar papers of heroin in his pocket and that he removed one of the papers and gave it to an unknown black male after the unknown black male had given Weldon twenty five dollars. “The confidential reliable informant stated that he was inside apartment number 3862 Goldman Road within the past twenty four hours and observed the heroin being sold. I, the affiant, received this information from the confidential reliable informant within the past twenty four hours. “I, the affiant, have received narcotics information from this confidential reliable informant on numerous occasions and on each occasion the information has proved to be true and correct. As a result of this informant’s information I, the affiant, have made numerous narcotics arrests and filed many felony narcotics cases.” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. State
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.