Phillips-Jones Corp. v. Parmley’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 233 · 1937
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1993 · most notably Arrowsmith v. Commissioner (1952), Sattelberger v. Telep (1954)
36 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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
reviewedPhillips-Jones Corp. v. Parmley (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Phillips v. Commissioner · Phillips v. Commissioner · Pierce v. United States · Leighton v. United States · Hulburd v. Commissioner
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The right to sue for contribution does not depend upon a prior determination that the defendants are liable. Whether they are liable is the matter to be decided in the suit. To recover a plaintiff must prove both that there was a common burden of debt and that he has, as between himself and the defendants, paid more than his fair share of the common^obligation. Every defendant may, of course, set up any defense personal to him.’ Phillips-Jones Corporation v. Parmley, 1937, 302 U.S. 233 , 58 S.Ct. 197 , 82 L.Ed. 221 .””
2 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.