21 Ala. App. 79 - Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1983
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 20 Ala. App. 74 - Porter 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court properly charged the jury that they had nothing to do with the punishment, that their duty ended when they had determined the guilt or innocence of defendant, and that the court had the duty of fixing the punishment.””
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.