State v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1996
4 federal appellate · 17 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 State v. Thomas · Noftzger v. Moffett · Bentley, Hatfield & Bentley v. Brown · State v. Forner
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In many lawsuits the more burdensome part of the lawyer’s duties are discharged out of court and beyond the observation of the judge, and in such cases evidence would be required thereof in court. In this case it is evident that his own senses and observation were the best witnesses possible to the judge, and this court is able to say from the record that under the circumstances the sum allowed as fees was not unreasonable for the services rendered.” (p. 415.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Glass““In willfully embarking upon an unlawful business they might well be presumed to have scanned every possible source of danger and to have not overlooked so public a proceeding as the injunction suit.” (p. 413.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.