Phillips v. Stynchcombe’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2012
24 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 Coleman v. Alabama · Adams v. Illinois · Manor v. State · Sims v. Caldwell · Davis v. State
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.
“The commitment hearing is the only formal discovery tool available to the defense in a criminal case in Georgia ... Against the backdrop of this rule, it is easy to see how important a commitment hearing can be to a defendant in a criminal case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.