Porter v. Investors Syndicate’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 461 · 1932
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 18 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (1938), Bowles v. Willingham (1944)
82 federal appellate · 18 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Keller v. Potomac Electric Power Co. · Prendergast v. New York Telephone Co. · Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. v. Russell
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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legislative process remains incomplete.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As we have seen, under the Montana statute the administrative proceeding is not complete until the court shall have acted in revision and correction of the commissioner’s decision. It would be strange indeed if the commissioner’s action thus subject to alteration were nevertheless to be made as effective to harm the parties in interest as if no further administrative procedure existed. We can not so read the act in the absence of clear and unambiguous phraseology requiring that course, or of a decision of the state court so construing it.””
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.