State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Barfield (1979), State v. Pinch (1982)
114 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 Morris v. State · United States ex rel. Darcy v. Handy · People v. Lettrich · United States v. Remington · State v. Dockery
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“supposed facts of which there is no evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Davis“[they] are in a very peculiar sense servants of the law. [Citation omitted.] They owe the duty to the State which they represent, the accused whom they prosecute, and the cause of justice which they serve to observe the rules of practice created by law to give those tried for crime the safeguards of a new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Oates“where a prosecuting attorney persists in asking witnesses improper questions for the purpose of getting before the jurors prejudicial matters which the law does not permit them to hear, the questions produce a highly prejudicial effect on the minds of the jurors,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis
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.