Porter v. Teate’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1981
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. . The breach of the covenants and the value of the consideration was legally established by the action and recovery of judgment by Teate against Porter. The judgment establishes the amount due Teate of the consideration for the sale of the Jefferson county land, which had not been paid or otherwise satisfied.”
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.