Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2000
6 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 440 So. 2d 297 - Groseclose v. State · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · United States v. Cohen · United States v. Byers · 351 So. 2d 1342 - Gray 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has held many times that lay testimony, as well as expert testimony, is admissible to prove a defendant's mental capacity to distinguish right from wrong at the time the crime is committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if a lay witness does not observe a defendant at the moment of the crime the witness may not give opinion testimony concerning the defendant's sanity at that moment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To be M'Naughten insane, a defendant must be unable to distinguish right from wrong at the time the act is committed.”
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.