Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably The People v. Scalisi (1926), Wall v. State (1922)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 State v. Evans · Thomas v. State · Johnson v. State · Croom v. State · Williams v. City Council of Augusta
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is very jealous of the liberty of the citizen. In proportion as the offense is less serious, the greater the formality prescribed for the exercise of the power to deprive the citizen of his liberty. If the offense be a felony, an arrest may be made by a private person or an officer, without a warrant, if the citizen suspected of the felony is endeavoring to escape; but if the offense be a misdemeanor, then before even an officer will be authorized to arrest, he must bring himself within the exception provided in the Penal Code, § 896, [Code of 1933, § 27-207].”
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.