Stone v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Jackson v. Speer (1992), Merchants & Planters National Bank of Sherman v. Appleyard (1953)
8 federal appellate · 30 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 Richardson v. Washington & Costley Bros. · L. F. Wilson & Co. v. Daggett · Pecos & Northern Texas Railway Co. v. Thompson · Huff v. Crawford · Ayres v. Henderson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. if he is actually in the State or is domiciled here at the time the obligation arises, the running of limitation is suspended during his subsequent absence, even though he is not actually in the State at the date when the cause of action becomes a present, enforceable demand in the sense that the obligation has matured for suit. 176 S.W.2d at 934 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If any person against whom there shall be cause of action shall be without the limits of this State at the time of the accruing of such action, or at any time during which the same might have been maintained, the person entitled to such action shall be at liberty to bring the same against such person after his return to the State and the time of such person’s absence shall not be accounted or taken as a part of the time limited by any provision of this title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.