Torres v. Sierra’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Local Warehouse and Office Workers' Union v. National Labor Relations Board (1986), Jaramillo v. Fisher Controls Co., Inc. (1985)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 McGovern v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. · Mulhall v. Fallon · Hogsett v. Hanna · Silva v. Waldie · Romero v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An illegal alien in the United States is entitled to the same rights to damages that a citizen has under the tort laws of the state and federal government. Low Moor Iron Co. [v. La Bianco’s Adm’r., 106 Va. 83 , 55 S.E. 532 ], supra. Trotta’s Adm’r v. Johnson, Briggs & Pitts, 121 Ky. 827 , 90 S.W. 540 (1906) says: We treat him [an illegal alien] as a human being, who, if wronged while within our jurisdiction in any personal or property right, may be redressed in our courts according to the laws of this state, giving such measure of compensation as we deem a proper equivalent for the wrong done. [ 90 S.W. at 541 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Dr. Everett G. Dillman, an economic statistician, testified on behalf of plaintiff on the subject of damages. He is recognized as a competent witness whose qualifications are unimpeachable. [Citation omitted.]”
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.