United States v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 321 · 1992
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably United States v. Maholias (1993), United States v. Lloyd (1995)
74 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1513 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986)
Relies on United States v. Tucker · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · United States v. Beechum · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is treated with great deference because of the trial judge's first-hand exposure to the witnesses and evidence as a whole, and because of his familiarity with the case and ability to gauge the likely impact of the evidence in the context of the entire proceeding.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Q]uestions about 'how similar is similar enough' do not have uniform answers; these answers ... depend on the theory that makes the evidence admissible, and must be reached on a case by case basis.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he more probative the evidence, the more the court will tolerate some risk of prejudice, while less probative evidence will be received only if the risk of prejudice is remote.”
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.