Phelan v. City & County of San Franciso’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 1980 · most notably Estate of Baird (1924), Dodge v. Gaylord (1876)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 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 Davidson v. Dallas · Hardenburgh v. Kidd, Marsh, & Reed · Burgoyne v. Board of Supervisors · Phelan v. County of San Francisco
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ A previous ruling by the appellate court upon a point distinctly made.may be only authority in other cases, to be followed and affirmed, or to be modified or overruled according to its intrinsic merits; but in the case in which it is made it is more than authority, it is a final adjudication, from the consequences of which the court cannot depart, nor the parties relieve themselves.””
2 later decisions 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.