Bain v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Oxenham v. Johnson (1991), Lee v. Southland Corp. (1978)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. McReynolds · Giant of Virginia, Inc. v. Pigg · Niese v. Klos · Wiggs v. Farmer · Gaut v. Pyles
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.
“probable cause is defined as knowledge of such facts and circumstances to raise the belief in a reasonable mind, acting on those facts and circumstances, that the plaintiff is guilty of the crime of which he is suspected.”
3 later decisions 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.