Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1997
12 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 Evans v. Evans · Burns v. Burns · McClintock v. McClintock · Meldrum v. Meldrum · Ramsey v. Ramsey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Should the court conclude upon the hearing of the case that, although the grounds for an absolute divorce are not fully sustained, yet, if the interest of the parties, their infant children, and the good of society demand it, he might under the statutory power conferred in this jurisdiction, grant a divorce from bed and board. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sales v. Sales““The discretion thus conferred is not, however, to be understood as arbitrary or unlimited, but a sound legal discretion, which is only to be exercised for such causes as may be deemed sufficient, when considered with a just and reasonable regard to the rights and obligations of both parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patrick v. Patrick
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.