Porter v. Vandercook’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1978
11 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.
Most-quoted passages
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““Perhaps, the better practice is to specify in the summons the true time as prescribed by law for the defendants to answer the plaintiff. Still, this court held, in the case of Lawrence v. Brown, decided at the January term, 1859, not reported, that the phraseology of the summons in this particular was not material; that the defendant must be presumed to know the law and the time which it gave him to answer; and that therefore a summons should not be set aside even though it did not conform to the law in that respect, and require the defendant to answer according. ‘ ‘ This was the extent of the decision in that case and upon so unimportant a question of practice, must be considered decisive as to the objection taken to the summons in the present case. The appellants undoubtedly well knew that the law gave them ninety days to answer the plaintiff and were not misled by anything which the summons contained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.