Phifer v. Phifer’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably Cole v. Cole (1961), 10 Ohio App. 3d 113 - Lee v. Lee (1983)
35 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 Duss v. Duss · Treat v. State Ex Rel. Mitton · Prine v. Prine · Holtsberg v. McCarty · Dykeman v. City of Tampa
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the evidence reasonably supports the findings of the chancellor, his conclusions thereon will not be disturbed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Cole“reasonable grounds to believe that the appeal will be successful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyer v. Boyer
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.