Torres v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Ex Parte Little (1994), Martin v. State (1982)
67 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 United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · Wade v. Hunter · United States v. Scott · Illinois v. Somerville
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before a failure to object constitutes an implied consent to a mistrial, a defendant must be given an adequate opportunity to object to the court's motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Wjhenever, in their opinion, taking all the circumstances into consideration, there is a manifest necessity for the act, or the ends of public justice would otherwise be defeated. They are to exercise a sound discretion on the subject; and it is impossible to define all the circumstances which would render it proper to interfere. To be sure, the power ought to be used with greatest caution, under urgent circumstances, and for very plain and obvious causes....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Brown“the trial judge in the instant ease gave no consideration to any less drastic alternatives such as an instruction to disregard. In a case like the instant one where the issue is of minor significance to the case, consideration of lesser alternatives is certainly most important when weighing a defendant’s double jeopardy right along with such considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown 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.