Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Camarillo-Cox v. Arkansas Department of Human Services (2005), Nelson v. State (2006)
33 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 Harmon v. State · Smith v. State · Marts v. State · Johnson v. State · David 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof of the motorist’s blood-alcohol content is not necessary for a conviction of DWI on the ground of intoxication. Stephens, 320 Ark. 426 , 898 S.W.2d 435 ; Wilson v. State, 285 Ark. 257 , 685 S.W.2d811 (1985). However, such proof is admissible as evidence tending to prove intoxication. Id.; Yacono, 285 Ark. 130 , 685 S.W.2d 500 . In deciding whether there is substantial evidence of intoxication, this court takes notice of the unquestioned laws of nature, mathematics, and physics. Stephens, 320 Ark. 426 , 898 S.W.2d 435 ; Yacono, 285 Ark. 130 , 685 S.W.2d 500 . Consistent with this principle, this court has repeatedly observed that blood-alcohol content decreases with the passage of time. Stephens, 320 Ark. 426 , 898 S.W.2d 435 (citing State v.Johnson, 317 Ark. 226 , 876 S.W.2d 577 (1994); David v. State, 286 Ark. 205 , 691 S.W.2d 133 (1985); Elam v. State, 286 Ark. 174 , 690 S.W.2d 352 (1985)).”
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.