Phillips v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2000
3 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Alcorta v. Texas · Chisholm v. Gilmer · Krist v. Caldwell
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the judge, after examining into the matter, determines that the prisoner’s presence is required by the ends of justice and... the party requesting it is financially unable to make said deposit,... expenses shall be taxed as cost of the court.” Although appellants had filed affidavits of poverty with the court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.