Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2021
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gruzen v. State · Davasher v. State · Campbell v. State · Hodge v. State · Tisdale v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution that at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct charged, he lacked capacity, as a result of mental disease or defect, to conform his conduct to the requirements of law or to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. State
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.