Reiter v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1986
17 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 Brulla v. Cassady · Romann v. Bender · Giermann v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. · Larsen v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Larson v. Swift & 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * ‘undisputed physical facts may show that an accident could not have happened as a plaintiff claims and that he has no cause of action,’ * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melzer v. Snow
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.