Porter v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1976
4 federal appellate · 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Lawrence v. . Fox · City of St. Louis ex rel. Glencoe Lime & Cement Co. v. Von Phul · Och v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · Howsmon v. Trenton Water Co. · Ellis v. Harrison
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the act by which an individual acknowledges that property the title to which he holds in his own name in fact belongs to another, for whose use he holds it.”
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.