Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1848
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1997
13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ordinary cases of rape, where a witness describes the outrage, ... evidence of her complaint, [made] soon after the outrage, is properly admissible to show her credit and the accuracy of her recollection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lewis
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.