Phillips v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
311 F.2d 204 · 1962
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 4244
Relies on Davis v. United States · Bryan v. United States · Durham v. United States · Sapir v. United States · Tatum v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the established rule in this Circuit, any relevant evidence of mental illness before or after the offense is sufficient to dissipate the legal presumption and cast the conventional burden on the government”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.