Phillipson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1971 · most notably Dyal v. Brunt (1942), In Re Estate of Sowder (1959)
26 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 Markham v. Waterman · Collamore v. Wilder · Greenwalt v. Keller · Ford v. Ticknor · Bristow v. First Trust Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the motion for a new trial is on the ground that the judgment rendered was contrary to the evidence, and that the court had admitted improper evidence, the appeal taken within time after the ruling upon the motion for a new trial raises those questions, and they may be reviewed with whatever effect the review may have upon the questions of law involved in the judgment of the court.” (p. 401.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waltmire v. Badger
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.