Phillips v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Harrison v. State (1975), 137 Cal. App. 2d 450 - Paley v. Superior Court (1955)
56 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Glover v. Patten · Blackburn v. Crawfords · Commonwealth v. Smith · Thompson v. Ish · Kern v. Kern
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a rule of law that the objection of a party to evidence as incompetent and immaterial, and insistence upon his right to have his case tried according to the rules of law, cannot be made a subject of comment in argument. [Citations omitted.] On the other hand, if evidence is material and competent except for a personal privilege of one of the parties to have it excluded under the law, his claim of the privilege may be referred to in argument and considered by the jury, as indicating his opinion that the evidence, if received, would be prejudicial to him. This is the rule where the party-declines to answer a question on the ground that his answer may tend to criminate him. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘‘But where the controversy is not between an estate and persons claiming against it, but is to determine who shall take by succession the property of a deceased person, and both parties claim under him, the reason for the privilege [of a communication made to an attorney] does not exist, and neither can set up a claim of privilege against the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mahoney v. Healy““When circumstantial evidence is largely relied upon to establish an issue, it is inevitable that many matters should be introduced which by themselves alone would be immaterial, although in connection with other evidence they may be helpful in discovering the truth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Edelstein
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.