Porter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. · Essex v. Commonwealth · 7 Va. App. 269 - Cantrell v. Commonwealth · Bishop v. Commonwealth · 11 Va. App. 1 - Harrell v. Commonwealth
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Malice is evidenced either when the accused acted with a sedate, deliberate mind, and formed design, or committed any purposeful and cruel act without any or without great provocation.”
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.