Phillips v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 721 · 1879
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1965 · most notably Powell v. Nolan (1902), Caird Engineering Works v. Seven-Up Gold Mining Co., Inc. (1940)
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are satisfied, therefore, that when this suit was commenced the complainant’s lien was good against the property for the amount found by the jury to be due to him, unless it was void for the reason stated in the demurrer of Boughton and Moore, namely, its being claimed on the whole row of buildings, and not on the buildings separately. We think, however, there is nothing in this objection. The contract was one, and related to the row as an entirety, and not to the particular buildings separately.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Walker
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.