Porter v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Carroll v. Lee (1986), Neely v. Neely (1977)
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Hanson v. Denckla · Milliken v. Meyer · Stoll v. Gottlieb · Durfee v. Duke · Baldwin v. Ionwa State Traveling Men's Ass'n
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Analysis demands the conclusion that [plaintiff] does not here ask us to merely accord full faith and credit to the Maryland decree. Instead, we are asked to give it greater credit and respect than the prior decree of our own State lawfully entered. Full faith and credit does not require, nor does it contemplate, such action from us."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.””
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.