Phillips v. Alston’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably 137 N.C. App. 192 - Cash v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2000), 46 N.C. App. 707 - Motor Inn Management, Inc. v. Irvin-Fuller Development Co. (1980)
28 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 Burgess v. Trevathan · City of New York Insurance v. Tice · Hamilton Fire Insurance v. Greger · Smith v. Pate · Winkler v. Appalachian Amusement Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the sum paid is only partial compensation, the owner is a necessary party to an action against a tort-feasor. If he desires full compensation for his loss, he should bring the suit. If he refuses, insurer may sue, making the owner a party defendant.””
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.