Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1996
17 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 Opinion of Justices to House of Representatives · City of Boston v. Dolan · Galotti v. United States Trust Co. · Keene v. Toth · Freeman v. Freeman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the uniform act is to provide an effective procedure to compel performance by one under a duty to support dependents in another State, and the District Court judge had power to make a valid order prospective in operation based upon the respondent’s duty to support his children in Maine (or New York). Keene v. Toth, 335 Mass. 591, 593 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moss v. Wynn · M v. W
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.