Phillips v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2003
16 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 Kirk v. Culley · Cowdery v. London Etc. Bank · Klauber v. San Diego Street Car Co. · 133 Cal. App. 31 - Lial v. Superior Court · 88 Cal. App. 192 - Brown v. Schroeder
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The entry of judgment in the exact form directed by the Appellate Court exhausted the jurisdiction of the trial court. That constituted a termination of the litigation. * * * The final judgment of an appellate court may be just as conclusive of the issues determined by it as that of a trial court. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnstone v. Sanborn“The judgment of the Appellate Court is as binding on the respondent as it is upon the appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnstone v. Sanborn
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.