Phelps v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2008
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Sarah Fall v. Elizabeth Eastin · McElreath v. McElreath · Wheeler v. Wheeler · Rotan v. Greenbaum · 49 Cal. 2d 322 - Rozan v. Rozan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, although the Ohio court could not by its decree directly act upon the title to the District of Columbia real estate, it could and did impose a personal obligation upon appellee to convey such real estate to appellant as and for her alimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Argent v. Argent
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.