Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1999 · most notably McMillan McMillan Freedom Finance Co Inc, Mazzilli v. ACCIDENT & CASUALTY INS. CO., ETC. (1958)
3 federal appellate · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Cromwell v. County of Sac · 111 N.J. Eq. 529 - Apfelbaum v. Apfelbaum · Calame v. Calame · Sobel v. Sobel · Halstead v. Halstead
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a contract is the product of fraud, mistake, coercion or the like, a court of equity may annul it. If, through mistake, it does not state the real agreement, the court may reform it. But the court cannot make a contract for the parties or revise their agreement. Contracts arise only from the voluntary acts of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moller v. Moller
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.