Phelps v. . Wait’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 1937 · most notably Alabama Great Southern Railway Co. v. Thompson (1906), Green v. . Davies (1905)
3 federal appellate · 28 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.
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. . the Hudson River Railroad Company · Steves v. . Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Company.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case was retained, for examination principally upon the other point,— the supposed misjoinder of parties, — and to enable the defendants’ counsel to supply a reference to authorities showing that in analogous cases principal and agent could not be sued together. The current of authority is certainly the other way, and in favor of the right to join these parties; and I have been unable, after a somewhat diligent examination, to find any reported case holding a contrary doctrine.””
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.