State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1950
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Just why the court permitted the defendant to waive a jury and try the case itself does not appear. The offense with which he was charged, grand larceny, is a felony, and in crimes of this character all issues of fact must be tried by a jury. This is just as true when the issue arises upon a plea of former acquittal as upon one of not guilty, and it is only in criminal cases not amounting, to a felony that trial by jury may be waived. . . . This being true, the court was without jurisdiction to try, unaided by a jury, the issue raised by. the plea of former acquittal, and necessarily its order sustaining this plea was a nullity. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holder v. State
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.