Porter v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
163 F.2d 211 · 1947
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Texas American Oil Corporation v. United States Department of Energy (1995), United States v. Seigel (1948)
15 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Porter v. Warner Holding Co. · Huntington v. Attrill · Carter v. Carter Coal Co. · Testa v. Katt · Smith v. Bolles
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“civil action is for damages if it is brought for the compensation of the injured individual. It is for a penalty if it seeks to obtain a sum of money for the state, an entity which has not suffered direct injury by reason of any prohibited action.”
6 later decisions 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.