State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Jennings (1993), 154 N.C. App. 176 - State v. Williams (2002)
52 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Carter v. Kentucky · State v. Wilkerson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge is required to order an in camera inspection and make findings of fact concerning the evidence at issue only if there is a possibility that such evidence might be material... and favorable to [that party]. However, if after the judge examines the evidence he rules against the [party’s] discovery motion, the judge should order the records sealed for appellate review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]hese circumstances were similar to the evidence that [the victim] was tied with a dog chain in North Carolina and explained the medical evidence that the serious injury to [the victim's] ankles was caused by their being tightly bound”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burr“`intentionally inflict[ed] . . . serious physical injury upon or to the child or . . . intentionally committ[ed] an assault upon the child'”
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.