United States v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.2d 435 · 1954
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Duncan (1988), United States v. DeFries (1997)
38 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 145
Relies on Michelson v. United States · Davis v. United States · Tatum v. United States · Wardlaw v. United States · Phelps v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Upon its failure to do so, we think it was the duty of the court of its own volition to instruct the jury as to the purpose for which the cross-examination was permitted, as well as the extent to which it could be considered by the jury. * * * * *• * * * -» “In the instant case no such precautionary measures were taken. In fact, there were no precautionary measures of any kind. For aught that is disclosed by the record, the jury was at liberty to consider the damaging implication inherent in the government’s cross-examination for any and all purposes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * in criminal cases defendant is entitled to have presented instructions relating to a theory of defense for which there is any foundation in the evidence, even though the evidence may be weak, insufficient, inconsistent or of doubtful credibility. Tatum v. United States, 88 U.S.App.D.C. 386 , 190 F.2d 612 , 617 (1951). The facts elicited at trial establish”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an aggravation rather than a mitigation of the harmful effect of the Court's refusal to instruct.”
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.