Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1970
14 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 DeNieff v. Howell · Greenfield v. McIntyre · Frizzell v. Reed · Eagan v. Conway · Wade v. Watson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for a widow to be the personal representative of her deceased husband who died leaving no lineal descendants, in the sense that she may sue or be sued as the representative of the estate, it is essential that at the time of the institution of the suit there be no outstanding debts against the estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardin v. Council“Upon the death of the husband without lineal descendants, the wife is his sole heir, and upon the payment of his debts, if any, may take possession of his estate without administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hardin v. Council
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.