Port v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Romero v. State (1990), Moore v. State (1999)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 David W. McKay v. Texas · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · Pyles v. Texas · McDougall v. North Carolina · Your Host, Inc. v. Commissioner
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t be made orally and the child makes a statement of facts or circumstances that are found to be true, which conduct tends to establish his guilt, such as the finding of secreted or stolen property, or the instrument with which he states the offense was committed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wyatt v. State · Gunter v. State“relevancy requirement was met ... where appellant’s oral statements that he used his .22 calibre pistol to shoot the victim were verified by the later discoveries, respectively, that the victim’s cause of death was two gunshot wounds to her head and that his ... pistol was ballistically proven to be the murder weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Almanza v. State“would have uttered that famous comment of his: 'If that occurs, color me amazed, one more time.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.