State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Awan (1986), State v. Williams (1977)
11 federal appellate · 77 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 Chimel v. California · Beck v. State of Ohio · Roviaro v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · United States v. Rabinowitz
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where an informer, acting on behalf of the police,purchases narcotics with marked money, some of which is late found in the possession of an accused, and the informer does not present the narcotics at the time of sale, and the testimony of the informer in relevant, helpful, and beneficial to the accused in making a defense to, or is essential to a fair trial on a charge of possession of narcotics for sale in violation of R.C. 3719.20(A), the privilege to withhold the disclosure of the informer's identity is inapplicable and the identify of the informer must be disclosed or the defendant discharged as to such charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. James“[wlhether a proper balance renders nondisclosure erroneous must depend on the particular circumstances of each case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. James
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.