Jefferies v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Cobb v. Benjamin (1997), Roberts v. Gaskins (1997)
2 district · 11 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Noack Enterprises, Inc. v. Country Corner Interiors of Hilton Head Island, Inc. · Columbia East Associates v. Bi-Lo, Inc. · Key Co. v. Fameco Distributors, Inc. · Payne v. Holiday Towers, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore, this court will correct any error of law, but we must affirm the [trial court's] factual findings unless there is no evidence that reasonably supports those findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Kellett“A claim under the [Act] is an action at law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Kellett
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.