Phelps v. McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2017
16 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 Horton v. . Perry · Peeples v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad · Robinson v. Standard Transportation Co. · Lowman v. City of Asheville · Person v. President of the State Bank of N. C.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“well established principle that there is a presumption in favor of the regularity and validity of the proceedings in the lower court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether or not consolidation of cases for trial, where permissible, will be ordered is in the discretion of the court.”
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.