State v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 95 Conn. App. 362 - State v. Miller (2006), Gordon v. HNS MANAGEMENT CO., INC. (2004)
34 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Doyle v. Ohio · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Wainwright v. Greenfield
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dictum is generally defined as [a]n expression in an opinion which is not necessary to support the decision reached by the court.... A statement in an opinion with respect to a matter which is not an issue necessary for decision.... Our Supreme Court has instructed that dicta have no precedential value.”
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.