Phelps v. Winch’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Meadowbrook Swimming Club, Inc. v. Albert (1938), Edmunds v. Duff (1924)
31 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 Oehler v. Levy · Gilbough v. West Side Amusement Co. · City of Pana v. Central Washed Coal Co. · Oswald v. Wolf · Minke v. Hopeman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The music, which was suited to dances of the present period, laughter, applause, making announcements, shuffling of feet, the noises and confusion when the dance breaks up, such as calling back and forth, starting cars, -blowing horns, closing shutters, can be distinctly heard in complainants’ houses, and bright lights of the cars flash across them as they are leaving or getting ready to leave the neighborhood of the pavilion, and that the noises interfere with the ordinary conversations in complainants’ houses and disturb them in their use, prevent rest and sleep, and make their homes much less desirable.””
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.