State v. Phenline’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1935
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Amending a section of an existing act requires no new title; the same title applies as much to the act as amended as it did to the original one, and the title expresses the subject of it, unless there has been a clear departure and complete change of substance from the original.””
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.