Phillips v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
201 F. 259 · 1912
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably United States v. Provoo (1955), Morton Butler Timber Co. v. United States (1937)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 United States v. Britton · Chaffee & Co. v. United States · Cook v. United States · Rudd v. . Robinson · Insurance Company v. Weide
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If this rule obtains in civil cases, it should not be relaxed in criminal eases. It results, therefore, that the books of the Hanover National Bank were improperly admitted in evidence, in the absence of the testimony of some person who either had some knowledge of the correctness of the entries made, or some knowledge of the original transaction upon which the entries were founded, and in the absence of testimony showing that the person or persons who possessed such knowledge were either dead, insane, or beyond the jurisdiction of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.