Pugh v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Three Rivers Land Co., Inc. v. Maddoux (1982), Arias v. Springer (1938)
29 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.
Relationships
Relies on Fullen v. Fullen · State Trust & Savings Bank v. Hermosa Land & Cattle Co. · Kerr v. Southwest Flourite Co. · Gilbert v. New Mexico Const. Co. · In re the Estate of Englehart
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court had full control of its judgment and jurisdiction and authority even upon its own motion to make any change, modification, or correction thereof which it deemed proper under the circumstances. (Emphasis added; citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“restored to district courts, during the period of 30 days, the control which they formerly had over their judgments during term time.”
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.