Phelps' v. . Pond’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
68
cited by 68 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
13
states following
March 1958
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1958 · most notably Ould v. Washington Hospital for Foundlings (1877), Cochrane v. . Schell (1894)
1 federal appellate · 65 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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.