Earp v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2009
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad v. Hogeland · Phelps Ex Rel. Phelps v. Board of County Commissioners · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. State · Roth v. Highways Commission · United Railways & Electric Co. v. Biedler
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so placed in the highway as to injuriously incommode its use for the purposes of public travel or constitute `a source of danger by reason of its close proximity to the travelled portion of the road.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“be made the subject of mere conjectural or capricious judgment and should not be submitted to the jury in the absence of proof legitimately tending to support the theory upon which recovery is sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was an object against which a vehicle on the travelled way could readily strike in passing.”
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.