Porter v. Roseman’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably 94 Ind. App. 461 - Terre Haute Trust Co. v. Scott, Rec. (1932), KMK Factoring, L.L.C. v. McKnew (In Re McKnew) (2001)
5 federal appellate · 58 state decisions — followed in 16 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 North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. v. St. Louis Ore & Steel Co. · Alexander v. Swackhamer · Pearce v. Dill · Bank of Antigo v. Union Trust Co. · Quick v. Lemon
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellee thus having .in his possession money which ex aequo et bono belonged and ought to have been returned to appellant, an action for money had and received might have been well brought for its recovery; and it was not material how the money came into his hands, if the plaintiff is justly entitled to receive it. In such a case the law implies a promise to pay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“money, having reached the ... [plaintiff] without authority or right, remained as much his property in the hands of [the plaintiff] as it was in the hands of Mount[.] ... [The plaintiff's] innocence and good faith afford no protection against the rightful owner who has been tortiously dispossessed.”
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.