Phelps v. Herro’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Henley v. Prince George's County (1986), County Commissioners v. J. Roland Dashiell & Sons, Inc. (2000)
6 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 Roehm v. Horst · New York Life Ins Co v. Viglas · White v. Friel · Sagamore Corporation v. Willcutt · Universal Life & Accident Insurance v. Sanders
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be noted suit was filed December 7, 1956, and the next instalment [sic] of $5,000 was not due under the contract until January 1, 1957. It is well settled and familiar law that a cause of action must be ripe at the commencement of the suit and the non-existence of a cause of action at that time is fatal to the right to recover; therefore it would be superfluous to cite authori ties in support of the proposition. Id. at 227-28 , 137 A.2d 159 . * # * * * * From what we have said above, we conclude this case was prematurely brought, so the judgments must be reversed. Id. at 233 , 137 A.2d 159 .”
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.