Porter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1981
16 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 Finberg v. Gilbert · Wilson v. Giraud · Lilly v. Blum · Wilson v. Giraud · 6 Tex. Civ. App. 312 - Hill v. Smith
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though different parties and different lands were involved in that case [Wilson v. Giraud], the same original surveys, boundary lines, and acts of the same surveyors, which determine the result of this suit, were involved. And the court’s determination of those matters, ‘even though it is presented by different parties and concerns different properties,’ becomes binding and conclusive in subsequent litigation involving them, not as res adjudicata, but under the doctrine of stare decisis. Benavides v. Garcia (Tex.Civ.App.) 283 S.W. 611 .” ( 15 S.W.2d at p. 194 )”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * where the facts conclusively show that the surveyor through mistake or by conjecture called for the adjoinder, the call for adjoinder does not control over course and distance, even though the line or corner called for was marked. In such situation the call for adjoinder will be rejected, as inserted by mistake, and controlling effect given to course and distance from known and undisputed corners, when under the facts of the particular case such construction of the survey is `most consistent with the intention to be derived from the entire description.' This method of construction by the rejection of a call for adjoinder inserted by mistake is most consistent with the true intention if its effect is to harmonize the other terms of the field notes and to disregard as few of the calls as possible.”
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.