State v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Freeman (1979), Dahlman v. Dist. Ct., Seventeenth Jud. Dist. (1985)
27 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. Spotted Hawk · State v. Jones · Powell v. Commonwealth · Allison v. State · State v. Taylor
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]his state is committed to the doctrine that once a valid sentence has been pronounced, the court imposing the same is lacking in jurisdiction to vacate or modify the sentence except as otherwise provided by statute...” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Felix v. Mohler
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.