Porter L. Fortune, Jr. v. David L. Molpus’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 799 · 1970
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2013
10 federal appellate · 4 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 Terminiello v. Chicago · Whitney v. People of State of California · Carroll v. President & Commissioners of Princess Anne · Feiner v. People of State of New York · Pitcher v. Laird
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A likelihood that the petitioner will prevail on the merits of the appeal; (2) Irreparable injury to the petitioner unless the stay is granted; (3) No substantial harm to other interested persons; and (4) No harm to the public interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.