State v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably State v. Brunner (1973), State v. Goodseal (1976)
40 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Escobedo v. Illinois · State v. Hart · State v. Phinis · State v. Little
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Webster’s unabridged dictionary (third) defines possession as the act or condition of having in or taking into one’s control or holding at one’s disposal. Control is defined as the act or fact of controlling, the power or authority to guide or manage.” (p. 481.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Farris
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.