Phillips v. Jacobs Ex Rel. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Lord v. Mazzanati (1999), Looney v. Looney (1999)
38 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 Massengale v. United States · Deason v. Farmers & Merchants Bank · Edwards v. Velvac, Inc. · Street v. Kurzinski · Mullen v. Couch
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Though Rule 4(c) was somewhat different prior to the effective date of our Per Curiam of March 14,1988, which simplified its terms, it consistently has required the trial court to act in some form or fashion on new trial motions within thirty days of filing, and we have previously held that failure to act within that time frame results in loss of jurisdiction to grant the relief requested under the motion. We have further held that a decision by the trial court within the thirty days which is not entered of record fails to meet the dictates of Rule 4(c). (citations omitted).”
1 later decision 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.