Porter v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \For criminal liability to be based on a failure to act it must first be found that there is a duty to act — a legal duty and not simply a moral duty\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• C.G. v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-08-31· cited 24×
• Hathcock v. Hathcock
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1996-10-25· cited 8×
• Stott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2002-05-15· cited 1×
• CG v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-08-31

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Everhart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1975-04-14· cited 90×
• Ex Parte Atwell
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-01-27· cited 49×
• Atwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-10-04· cited 49×
• People v. Chapman
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1886-07-01· cited 37×
• Salzman v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1981-06-04· cited 19×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-08-28· cited 16×
• People v. LOT 23
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-04-13· cited 13×
• Everhart v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1974-02-13· cited 12×
• Rasberry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-14· cited 8×
• Powell v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1924-09-29· cited 5×