Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Skipper v. Skipper (1967), Dunlavy v. Dunlavy (1968)
32 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 Hodson v. Hodson · Davis v. Davis · Caine v. Caine · Williams v. Williams · Gross v. Gross
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . Attorneys for the wife in a divorce action are entitled to a reasonable fee for their services commensurate with their labor and skill involved, the results of the litigation and the earning capacity of the parties, and such allowance rests in the sound judicial discretion of the trial court. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Stewart
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.