Wadleigh v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 1998 · most notably 67 Cal. 2d 695 - Daar v. Yellow Cab Co. (1967), Treadwell v. Nickel (1924)
4 federal appellate · 72 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 Sheehan v. Sullivan · Kleinclaus v. Dutard · Thomas v. Hosselkus · Montecito Valley Water Co. v. City of Santa Barbara · Mahoney v. Bostwick
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the appellate court ... will not disturb the finding of the trial court to the effect that the deed is a mortgage, where there is substantial evidence warranting a clear and satisfactory conviction to that effect. All questions as to preponderance and conflict of evidence are for the trial court.”
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.