Phillips v. Kankakee Reclamation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1931
2 federal appellate · 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 Shepard v. Barron · Pierce v. Somerset Ry · Ricketts v. Spraker · Board of Commissioners v. Plotner · Musco v. . United Surety Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who receives a benefit under an unconstitutional law is estopped from denying its constitutionality.” ■“One who stands by and without objection sees his property benefited by a public improvement is estopped to deny the legality of the proceedings under which the improvement was made.””
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.