Porter v. Carstensen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A case brought by direct appeal to the supreme court shall be subject to dismissal, if the record on appeal shall not have been filed in the office of the clerk of the supreme court within sixty (60) days after such record shall have been filed in the office of the clerk of the district court as required by law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baehr v. Luce · North v. Hoffman

2. ““If we should excuse the delay in this case, we should thereby practically modify the phrase of the rule ‘within sixty days,’ by adding thereto ‘more or less,’ and we should then in every case in which the record was filed after the expiration of 60 days, have to determine as to whether or not a reasonable or unreasonable time after the expiration of the 60 days had elapsed, and thus again be faced with the identical evil which we attempted to remedy by the adoption of the rule.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. North v. Hoffman