Phelps v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 341 · 1927
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 12 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. v. United States (1984), Jacobs v. United States (1933)
102 federal appellate · 12 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 19 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.
Relationships
Relies on Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · United States v. North American Transportation & Trading Co. · Brooks-Scanlon Corporation v. United States · Campbell v. United States · United States v. Great Falls Manuf'G Co
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are entitled to have the full equivalent of the value of [its] use at the time of the taking paid contemporaneously with the taking.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the full equivalent of the [property's] value ... at the time of the taking paid contemporaneously with the taking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Acts of Congress are to be construed and applied in harmony with and not to thwart the purpose of the Constitution.”
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.