Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Williams v. State (2001), Lott v. State (2004)
20 federal appellate · 41 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Whren v. United States · Arizona v. Fulminante · United States v. Cronic
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Willingham was handed down six (6) months after the trial in this case, the law upon which the decision that second degree depraved mind murder is not a lesser included offense of malice murder was based was the 1976 amendment to the statute. Therefore, as the statutory language upon which this Court relied for its authority was in effect at the time of the murder and trial in this case, it appears that no possible ex post facto violation is present.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Deviation from language of the uniform instructions constitutes technical error which is harmless if the instructions given fairly and accurately state the applicable law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lott v. State · Hancock v. State
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.