Phillis v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1999
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 Betts v. Letcher · Moyer v. . Hinman · Meade v. Gilfoyle · Corey v. Smalley · Durand v. Preston
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And it nowhere appearing that he ever paid the purchase price for the land or became possessed of the legal or equitable title thereto, plaintiff failed to .establish her ownership in fee, and .therefore failed to establish her cause of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillis v. Gross“became the equitable owner of the property”
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.