Portomene v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
221 F.2d 582 · 1955
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Roviaro v. United States (1957), Gordon v. United States (1971)
51 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Sorrentino v. United States · United States v. Conforti
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was bad blood between [an informant] and the defendant, and that this furnished the motive for [the informant’s] desiring to involve [the defendant] by false charges that he had dealt in narcotics”); Medifast, Inc. v. Minicow, No. 10-CV-382 JLS (BGS), 2011 WL 1157625 , at (S.D.Cal. Mar. 29, 2011) (describing an alleged”
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.