Porter v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1966
1 federal appellate · 12 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think, on the rules of construction which have always prevailed in this State, that immediately on George F. Porter’s death his children took vested estates subject only to the life estate and other burdens imposed by'law or by the will.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““On the decease of my wife, Eliza G. Porter, I desire my property to be divided equally between my surviving children,” etc.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sturgis v. Sturgis · Hay v. Hay
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.