Port v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Only when the fact or circumstance corroborated the accused’s disclosure of guilty knowledge did the fact or circumstance conduce to establish the accused’s guilt. David Port made assertions of facts and circumstances which were not within the knowledge of the police and which only the killer of Debra Schatz could have known at the time. When these facts and circumstances were found to be true they conduced to establish Port's guilt and his assertions became admissible under Sec. 3(c).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Port v. State

2. “Whether the defendant claims to have shot the victim once or several times is no more conducive to establish his guilt. The statement does not conduce to establish guilt but is merely an oral assertion of guilt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Port v. State