Phelps v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 1982 · most notably Farmers Loan & Trust Co. v. Canada & St. Louis Railway Co. (1891), Kirkpatrick v. Reeves (1889)
49 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 Adler v. Fenton · Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway Co. v. Allen · Stix v. Sadler · Taylor v. Duesterberg · Morris v. Stern
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.