Phelps v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1948 · most notably Central Savings Bank v. O'Connor (1903), Cleveland Refining Co. v. Dunning (1897)
27 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 Burnes v. Scott · Kulenkamp v. Groff · Martin v. Hamlin · Cook v. Brown · Hyde v. Tenwinkel
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Therefore, if a bill or note be absolute upon its face, no evidence of a verbal agreement made at the same time, qualifying its terms, can be admitted.” Phelps v. Abbott, 114 Mich. 88 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.