Phelps v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1920
20 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The representations by Finch, and those contained in the printed circular, made to and shown defendant, during the negotiations for the sale, and which resulted in the order being given, were clearly admissible in evidence, and the written order of defendant did not constitute such a contract in this case as would exclude this evidence. Every principle, both of law and justice, should hold a party bound by, and responsible for, the representations, whether oral or written, which he holds out, and relying upon which a party gives an order, as in this case.””
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.