Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably Felker v. State (1984), Pope v. State (1986)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Godfrey v. Georgia · Jarrell v. State · Hance v. State · Gilreath v. State · Birt 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“serious physical and psychological abuse before death. Such an interpretation of § (b)(7) would allow the trier of fact to find § (b)(7) in almost every murder case. We cannot so broadly construe "physical" or "psychological" abuse. [Id.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stanley · Hall v. State“offense of murder was outrageously and wantonly vile, horrible and inhuman in that it involved torture to the victim and depravity of mind on the part of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stanley · Hall v. State“the mere apprehension of death, immediately before the fatal wounds are inflicted”
2 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.