478 So. 2d 33 - Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably 490 So. 2d 927 - Maxwell v. Wainwright (1986), Porter v. Wainwright (1986)
1 federal appellate · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Enmund v. Florida · Patterson v. United States · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · McDougall v. North Carolina
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is at least as likely that introducing this material would have damaged Porter as that it would have helped him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We also point out that we considered the sufficiency of the evidence and the application of Tedder v. State, 322 So.2d 908 (Fla.1975), on Porter's direct appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. State“was a result of the considered and ... [tactical] decision as opposed to one of negligence....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Wainwright
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.