Porterfield v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 225 · 1923
Citation profile
6 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Graham v. Richardson (1971), Torao Takahashi v. Fish and Game Commission (1948)
6 district · 44 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Ex parte Virginia
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.
“The treaty between the United States and Japan provides that citizens of Japan residing in the United States may lease land for residential and commercial purposes, but it contains no provision authorizing an alien of the Japanese race to lease or acquire land for agricultural purposes. Consequently the initiative alien law ... prohibits the acquisition by such alien of any agricultural land situated in this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unlawfully coerced by ... threats of prosecution from entering into ... agreements [pertaining to the planting, cultivating, and farming of certain agricultural lands] and ... thereby deprived of their property without due process of law and ... denied equal protection of the law in contravention to the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution.”
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.