Phillips v. Hedges’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2024
21 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 Merritt v. Merritt · King v. King · Hedges v. Hedges · Conoco Inc. v. Agrico Chemical Company · May-Li Barki, M.D., Inc. v. Liberty Bank & Trust 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there is a conflict between two statutes governing the same subject, one specific and one general, the statute enacted for the purpose of dealing with the subject matter controls over the general statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a continuing obligation that runs at the statutory rate from the date of judgment until paid...and need not be reduced to a lump sum and included in a judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the docket sheet, the documents filed of record and designated for review by the parties, and the facts to which both parties agree.”
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.