Phillips v. Dime Trust & Safe Deposit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
284 U.S. 160 · 1931
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1976 · most notably Speiser v. Randall (1958), Heiner v. Donnan (1932)
37 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Nichols v. Coolidge · Tyler v. United States · Milliken v. United States · Untermyer v. Anderson · Reinecke v. Spalding
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(e) * * *, except such part thereof as may be shown to have originally belonged to such other person [Mrs. Folger] and never to have been received or acquired by the latter from the decedent [her husband] for less than an adequate and full consideration in money or money’s worth.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dimock v. Corwin
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.