Phillips v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.3d 103 · 2002
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 20 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Terry v. Ashcroft (2003), Cobb v. Pozzi (2003)
31 federal appellate · 20 district ·
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 Connick v. Myers · Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Carlson v. Green · Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the total circumstances of her working environment changed to become unreasonably inferior and adverse when compared to a typical or normal, not ideal or model, workplace.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such a complete absence of evidence supporting the verdict that the jury's findings could only have been the result of sheer surmise and conjecture,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e will [nevertheless] not grant a new trial unless we find that the introduction of inadmissible evidence was a clear abuse of discretion and was so clearly prejudicial to the outcome of the trial that we are convinced that the jury has reached a seriously erroneous result or that the verdict is a miscarriage of justice. We measure prejudice by assessing error in light of the record as a whole.”
3 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.