Porter v. Dicken’s Empirical Analysis
328 U.S. 252 · 1946
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1992 · most notably Younger v. Harris (1971), O'Shea v. Littleton (1974)
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Bowles v. Willingham · Toucey v. New York Life Insurance · Porter v. Lee · Hale v. Bimco Trading, Inc.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The writ of injunction shall not be granted by any court of the United States to stay proceedings in any court of a State, except in cases where such injunction may be authorized by any law relating to proceedings in bankruptcy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fleming v. Rhodes
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.