Porter v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Smith v. Phillips · Remmer v. United States · Rosene v. United States · 111 Ill. 2d 386 - People v. Porter
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process means a jury capable and willing to decide the case solely on the evidence before it, and a trial judge ever watchful to prevent prejudicial occurrences and to determine the effect of such occurrences when they happen. Such determinations may properly be made at a hearing like that ordered in Remmer and held in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Barnes v. Joyner“would not have been proper, would have invaded the sanctity of the jury and jury deliberation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Porter v. Gramley“said as far as she was concerned, they could vote guilty right then.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Porter v. Gramley
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.