Phelps v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
35 F. 455 · 1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1924
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Hovey v. McDonald · Grignon's Lessee v. Astor · John Voorhees v. James Jackson · Sarah Boone v. William Chiles
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proofs must be according to the allegations of the parties, and if the proofs go to matters not within the allegations, the court cannot judicially act upon them as a ground for decision, for the pleadings do not put them in con-testation. * * * A parly can no more succeed upon a case proved hut not alleged than upon a case alleged but not proved.””
2 later decisions 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.