Phelps v. . McQuade’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Krisel v. Duran (1966), Strang v. Westchester County National Bank (1923)
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPhelps v. McQuade
Relationships
Relies on Edmunds v. Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. · Burton v. . New York Central and Hudson River Rd. Co. · Hentz v. . Miller · Hickey v. McDonald Bros.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intention of the person having title to the goods and delivering them to another”
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.