Porter v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2001
11 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 Civil Rights Cases · Buchanan v. Warley · Virginia v. Rives · Cowell v. Springs Co. · Queensborough Land Co. v. Cazeaux
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs had no contract relations with defendant Robinson [a subvendee]. He was a stranger to them and their contract. Under such circumstances he was not entitled to notice of the forfeiture of a contract to which he was not a party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`incident to the ownership of an estate in fee-simple'”
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.