Porter v. Searle’s Empirical Analysis
228 F.2d 748 · 1955
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Potucek v. Lourdes (1962), King-Porter Company v. Scanlon (1971)
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Bailey v. Baker Ice Machine Co. · Walker v. Brown · Sexton v. Kessler & Co. · Hurley v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Ex parte Davis
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.
“(B) To eliminate the evil of allowing a trustee in bankruptcy to take the position of a potential and artificial bona fide purchaser, and to restore him to the position of a lien creditor, in harmony with his functions under the Bankruptcy Act * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a creditor then holding a lien thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Potucek v. Lourdes
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.