Porter v. Silvers’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1921
9 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 Miller v. Beaver
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the next place, the agent is entitled to his commissions only upon a due and faithful performance of all the duties of his agency in regard to his principal. * * * If, therefore, the agent does not perform his appropriate duties, or if he is guilty of gross negligence, or gross misconduct, or gross unskillfulness in the business of his agency, he will not only become liable to his principal for any damages which he may sustain thereby, but he will also forfeit all his commissions. Slight negligence, or slight omissions of duty, will not, indeed, ordinarily, be visited with such serious consequences, although, if any loss has occurred thereby to the principal, it will be followed by a proportionate diminution of the commissions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blair v. Shaeffer
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.