Porter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We have repeatedly held that the rule requiring the names of witnesses examined before the grand jury to be entered on the indictment does not -prevent the commonwealth from introducing on the trial witnesses whose names are not on the indictment or in a subpoena for the commonwealth; and this right may be exercised by the commonwealth, whether some witnesses were or were not examined by the grand jury. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wiley v. Commonwealth