Evans v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
17 U.S. 73 · 1819
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. (1958), United States v. Villamonte-Marquez (1983)
16 federal appellate · 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.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“submitted to a nonsuit in the circuit court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.