Peugh v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
112 U.S. 737 · 1885
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1958 · most notably Davis v. Elmira Savings Bank (1896), Fourth Street Bank v. Yardley (1897)
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 17 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
Relies on Trist v. Child · Wright v. Ellison · Power v. Baker
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, as between Masser and Porter, on the one hand, and Peugh, on the other, there were words in the agreement of express transfer and assignment of the very fund now in dispute, though not then in existence, which in contemplation of equity is not material.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that each should have an equal interest in the prosecution and proceeds of the claims in case of recovery;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. White
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.