Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Robinson v. State (1974), Hughes v. State (1949)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Pointer v. United States · Hinshaw v. State · Johnson v. State · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Case · Thrawley v. State
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It follows, and we so conclude, that the court committed an error in refusing to charge as requested by appellant in respect to an absence or a lack of motive on his part for committing the crime in controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. State
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.