Porter v. Sabin’s Empirical Analysis
149 U.S. 473 · 1893
Citation profile
175 federal appellate · 58 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 497 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Penn General Casualty Co v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Schnader (1935), Independent Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Radio Corp. (1926)
175 federal appellate · 58 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Hawes v. Oakland · Barton v. Barbour · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Cox · Thompson v. Phenix Ins Co of Brooklyn N Y
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 497 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is for that [receivership] court, in its discretion, to decide whether it will determine for itself all claims of or against the receiver, or will allow them to be litigated elsewhere. It may direct claims in favor of the corporation to be sued on by the receiver in other tribunals ....”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the corporation becomes insolvent, and a receiver of all its estate and effects is appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, the right to enforce this, and all other rights of property of the corporation, vests in the receiver; and he is the proper party to bring suit, and, if he does not himself sue, should properly be made a defendant to any suit by stockholders in the right of the corporation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right of action remains part of the estate of the corporation within the exclusive custody and jurisdiction of the state court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelly v. Dolan
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.