Phillips v. Gieringer’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2020
8 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 Hernandez Jimenez v. Calero Toledo · Korn v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Inc. · 801 F. Supp. 1450 - Advanced Power Systems, Inc. v. Hi-Tech Systems, Inc. · Martin v. Mears · Reed v. Municipality of Anchorage
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, on a motion ... to dismiss for failure of the pleading to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, matters outside the pleading are presented to and not excluded by the court, the motion shall be treated as one for summary judgment and disposed of as provided in Rule 56, and all parties shall be given reasonable opportunity to present all material made pertinent to such a motion by Rule 56.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but described the 'defendant' in her complaint as the driver of the motor vehicle and directed all her claims against the driver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sellers v. Kurdilla“Although Carl [Gieringer] was not a minor, he was insured under the same State Farm auto insurance policy as his father....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sellers v. Kurdilla
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.