State v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2018
22 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 Notaro v. United States · United States v. Corrigan · De Groot v. United States · State v. Wilson · State v. Curtis
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.
“entitled to have the jury instructed on the law applicable to its theory of the case if there is any reasonable basis in the evidence to justify it”
11 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garcia · State v. Garcia“[FJailure to adequately instruct the jury 'concerning the burden of proof as to self-defense,' is reversible error and requires a new trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garcia · State v. Alzaga“'defendant does not bear the burden of persuasion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garcia · State v. Knoll
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.