Fontes v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.2d 956 · 1946
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Leon F. Urbain and Loxit Systems, Inc. v. Knapp Brothers Manufacturing Company, Al Levinson, Charles Levinson, and Robert Levinson (1954), Gilliland v. Rodriquez (1954)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Bowles v. Glick Bros. Lumber Co.
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.
“Neither proof nor finding is requisite in respect of uncontested issues.”
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.