Portuguese-American Bank v. Welles’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 7 · 1916
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999 · most notably Martin v. National Surety Co. (1937), Fox-Greenwald Sheet Metal Co. v. Markowitz Bros. (1971)
21 federal appellate · 9 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hobbs v. McLean · Arkansas Valley Smelting Co. v. Belden Mining Co. · Burck v. Taylor · 1 E.H. Smith 277 - Fortunato v. . Patten
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a man sells a horse, what he does, from the point of view of the law, is to transfer a right, and a right being regarded by the law as a thing, even though a res incorporalis, it is not illogical to apply the same rule to a debt that would be applied to a horse.”
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.