Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Washington v. State (2003), Fairclough v. State (2003)
23 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 Rowland v. State · 175 Ga. App. 741 - Cannon v. State · Harrison v. Harrison · 213 Ga. App. 117 - Gibbs v. State · Johnson 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o allow untimely filed motions, and thereby toll or delay the time for filing a notice of appeal, would violate the provisions of OCGA § 5-6-39 (b), prohibiting extensions of time for filing such motions, as well as ignore the further mandate of OCGA § 5-6-39 (d), that requires within 30 days either the filing of a notice of appeal or the obtaining of an extension of time therefor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The proper and timely filing of the notice of appeal is an absolute requirement to confer jurisdiction upon the appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Delevan 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.