Phillips v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 208 · 1879
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1981 · most notably Terrace v. Thompson (1923), Fritts v. Palmer (1889)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 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 De Merle v. Mathews · Heirs of Holliman v. Peebles
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ By the common law, an alien cannot acquire real property by operation of law, but may take it by act of the grantor, and hold it until office found; that is, until the fact of alienage is authoritatively established by a public officer, upon an inquest held at the instance of the government.” 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terrace v. Thompson
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.