Mathews v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1938
15 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 Farmers & Mechanics Bank v. Kercheval · Switzer v. Pinconning Manufacturing Co. · Gard v. Stevens
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule arising from the implication of the language used is that. when the amount of the liability is limited, and the time is not, the contract should be construed as a continuing guaranty.””
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.