United States v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 205 · 1990
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 26 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 480 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Marcus (2010), United States v. Marcus (2010)
228 federal appellate · 26 district · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3013 · 18 U.S.C. § 3622 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 853 (§ 413 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory
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 480 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether to grant a bill of particulars rests within the sound discretion of the district court.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'until after all other possible means of investigation have been exhausted by investigative agents; rather, [the statute] only require[s] that the agents inform the authorizing judicial officer of the nature and progress of the investigation and of the difficulties inherent in the use of normal law enforcement methods.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but to decide if the facts set forth in the application were minimally adequate to support the determination that was made.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.