Phillips v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1980 · most notably Myers v. United States (1924), Schwarz v. Superior Court (1896)
28 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 Yates v. Lansing · People ex rel. Whitney v. Board of Delegates of San Francisco Fire Department · Batchelder v. Moore · Phillips v. Welch · Blair v. Hamilton
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““2. The writ [of certiorari] shall be granted in all cases when an inferior tribunal, board or officer, exercising judicial functions, has exceeded the jurisdiction of such tribunal, board or officer and there is no appeal, nor, in the judgment of the court, any plain, speedy and adequate remedy. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No court can discharge on habeas corpus a person that is in execution by the judgment of any other court having jurisdiction of the subject-matter. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Dixon
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.