Phipps v. Phipps’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably Steinke v. Steinke (1975), 181 Pa. Super. 414 - Rankin v. Rankin (1956)
41 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 Esenwein v. Esenwein · McKrell v. McKrell · Middleton v. Middleton · Nacrelli v. Nacrelli · Wick v. Wick
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he essential feature of the offense of indignities to the person is that it must consist of a course of conduct or continued treatment which renders the condition of the innocent party intolerable and his or her life burdensome. . . .” Phipps v. Phipps, 368 Pa. 291, 295 , 81 A.2d 523, 525 (1951), cert. den. 342 U.S. 942 . 5 (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steinke v. Steinke
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.