Porter v. Shaffer’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Leonard v. Counts (1980), Greenspan v. Osheroff (1986)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 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 Steinman v. Clinchfield Coal Corp. · Plunkett v. Bryant · Walters v. Farmers Bank · Shield v. Adkins & Co. · Woolfolk v. Graves
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And the general rule also is that, when improvements are erected on the land of another under circumstances that would entitle the party making the improvements to recover compensation, the measure of such compensation is governed by the benefit accruing to the owner of the land from the improvements erected thereon, and not by the cost of the improvements or the expenditures made.”
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.