Phillips v. Reichert’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1995
16 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 Dimmick v. Lockwood · Wiley v. Howard · Morris v. Phelps · Reese v. McQuilkin
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the fact that the land was bought for a particular purpose cannot have the effect of increasing the liability thus imposed by the covenants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hudson v. McClaskey
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.