Yates v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2025
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.
Relationships
Relies on Ferrell v. Massie
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the action is barred by the 30-day statute of limitations, . . . Actions of this character do not come within the provisions of § 6969 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest, allowing new suits to he brought within one year after taking or suffering a nonsuit upon the action brought within the statutory period of thirty days. If so, the very purpose of a short statute of limitations fixed in the act would he thwarted by preventing the construction of improvements therein within a reasonable time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casey v. Burdine
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.