Porter v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 907 So. 2d 447 - Wilcoxen v. Wilcoxen (2005), Junkin v. Junkin (1994)
32 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 Western Grain Company Cases · 332 So. 2d 722 - Brocato v. Brocato · 52 Ala. App. 636 - Kohn v. Kohn · 405 So. 2d 31 - Hicks v. Hicks · 406 So. 2d 879 - Zirlott v. Radcliff
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“since the honor and peace of the family is often at stake.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““No private agreement or consent between the parties or their attorneys, relating to the proceedings in any cause, shall be alleged or suggested by either against the other, unless the same be in writing, and signed by the party to be bound thereby; provided, however, agreements made in open court or at pretrial conferences are binding, whether such agreements are oral or written.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“within the discretion of the court to permit [a party] to repudiate his [or her] agreement for good cause shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Britt v. Britt
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.