In re Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1942
5 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 Farrell v. Taylor · City of Ishpeming v. Maroney · Coot v. Willett · John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Durfee · John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Hill's Estate
Most-quoted passages
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““We can no more weigh the evidence in a case when a jury has determined the question than in a case where the court has determined it. We must not be understood as holding that, if there is no testimony showing mental incapacity, that question might not be reviewed in this court by writ of error from the circuit court; but in such case the court must have before it the entire testimony, from which it must conclusively appear that there was no evidence showing incapacity.” In re Phillips, 154 Mich. 139, 141 ( 117 N. W. 630 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Kellogg
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