Porter v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1821
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1947
most recently cited
1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““to give such a construction to the law as to attain, as far as may be, the object in view.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harnum
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.