Ray v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.2d 452 · 1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2011
3 federal appellate · 6 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 Stewart v. Kahn · Campbell v. Rockefeller · Warinner v. Nugent · Hurwitch v. Adams · Estate of Charles B. Wolf, Charles S. Wold, Frances G. Wolf, Executors v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The period of military service shall not be included in computing any period now or hereafter to be limited by any law, ... for the bringing of any action or proceeding in any court, ... by or against any person in military service ... whether such cause of action or the right or privilege to institute such action or proceeding shall have accrued prior to or during the period of such service.....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Landis v. Hodgson“[T]he parallel purpose of the Act [is] to protect the rights of individuals having causes of action against members of the armed forces.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walters v. Nadell
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.