Porter v. Bedell’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably White v. Winchester Land Development Corp. (1979), In the Matter of Cantrill Construction Company, Bankrupt. Commercial Bank of Middlesboro, Kentucky v. Nolan Carter, Jr., Trustee in Bankruptcy (1969)
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Gunn v. United States · Armstrong v. Walker · Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. First National Bank · Wilson v. Hite's · Fletcher American Co. v. Culbertson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a surety pays his principal’s obligation without taking an assignment thereof, his cause" of action against his principal is based on an implied obligation to pay and is therefore barred by the five-year statute of limitations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.