Porter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2012
2 federal appellate · 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 City of Indianapolis v. Kingsbury · City of Denver v. Clements · Village of Princeville v. Auten · Hanson v. Eastman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is complete in itself, and free from ambiguity, it will control; but, if ambiguous, extrinsic evidence may be received in its aid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Dunlap
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.