State v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 1979 · most notably State v. Ochoa (1937), State v. Shawley (1933)
35 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 State v. Darling · Flege v. State · Connaughty v. State · White v. People · 45 Tex. Crim. 225 - Cole 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A summary of the facts in the instant case as we have stated them in detail, shows that appellant, angered by the remark made to the woman by Carpenter, struck the latter with his fist. They exchanged several blows. Carpenter then struck or struck at Mills, who had thus far not participated in the difficulty, and the latter, as he states, struck back with a knife in his hand. Carpenter fell, and his death was the result of a stab in the neck which severed his jugular vein. Neither before, during or after the difficulty is there in evidence any fact or circumstance indicative of a common purpose on the part of appellant and Mills to commit the crime with which the former is charged. The giving of the instructions, therefore, was prejudicial error. Aside from our own rulings, of which those cited are but types of others, the following cases from courts of last resort elsewhere announce a like doctrine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell“Demonstrative evidence of this character is admissible if it tends to connect the accused with the crime . . . or throw any relevant light upon a material matter at issue. [Citing cases.] Necessarily, the admission of this character of testimony must, within the limits stated, be left largely to the discretion of the trial court (citing cases) and only when it appears that this discretion has been abused will we interfere therewith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stogsdill
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.