Porter v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
328 U.S. 246 · 1946
Citation profile
133 federal appellate · 15 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Porter v. Warner Holding Co. (1946), Fleming v. Rhodes (1947)
133 federal appellate · 15 district · 22 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Bowles v. Willingham · Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Northside Belt Railway Co. · Henderson v. Fleckinger
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a defendant with notice in an injunction proceeding completes the acts sought to be enjoined the court may by mandatory injunction restore the status quo.”
12 later decisions 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.