Philippi v. Philippe’s Empirical Analysis
115 U.S. 151 · 1885
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Richmond v. Irons (1887), Russell v. Todd (1940)
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Elmendorf v. Taylor · Badger v. Badger · William Oliver and Micajah Williams v. Robert Piatt · Lansdale v. Smith · Prevost v. Gratz
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statute of limitations will begin to run from the time such repudiation and claim came to the knowledge of the beneficiary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The doctrine is elementary that the statute of limitations does not run against an express trust until the trustee has done some act which shows repudiation of the trust, and which is brought to the knowledge of the cestui que trust.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lassiter v. Bouche
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.