Phillips v. Turney’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1976
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mississippi River Fuel Corp. v. Senn · Sullivan v. State · Alexander v. Johnson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You are instructed that before you can find for the plaintiffs in this case in any sum you must first believe from a preponderance or greater weight of the evidence that the defendants were the aggressors, or the ones who started the altercation, and unless you so find your verdict will be for the defendants.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. Johnson
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.