Philbrook v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1999
18 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 Case v. Beauregard · In re the Estate of Jessup · People ex rel. Bryant v. Holladay · Gray v. Dougherty · Leese v. Clark
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The concurrence of four justices is necessary to pronounce a judgment of the court ..., but it is not necessary to the validity of such a judgment that four shall concur therein upon the same grounds, provided they all concur in the same judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is sufficient, for any purpose contemplated by the constitution, if the grounds upon which the respective justices concur in the judgment are somewhere stated in the respective opinions delivered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a sufficient compliance with the constitutional requirement that the decisions of this court must state the `grounds of the decision.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.