Porter v. Maule’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.2d 1 · 1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2009
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co. · Bowden v. Johnson · Irwin v. Wright · The Sapphire
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.
““As to the substitution of parties, we are in no doubt that in a case of this kind, while suits are brought and proceed in the name of the administrator, he is plaintiff in name only. As administrator, he sues not for himself but for the office. Action that he takes in filing suits, and in appealing from judgments in them, is action on behalf, and for the use, of the office, and, when he is no longer administrator, of his successor. * * * We think it plain, though, on reason and on authority * * * that the suit did not abate but continued both for judgment and for appeal in the name of the nominal plaintiff until his successor was substituted.””
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.