Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 4 Cal. 4th 335 - People v. Karaman (1992), 190 Cal. App. 3d 844 - Seeley v. Seymour (1987)
6 federal appellate · 110 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 Trubowitch v. Riverbank Canning Co. · 39 Cal. 2d 858 - De Burgh v. De Burgh · Crim v. Kessing · Brownell v. Superior Court of Yolo Cty. · 5 Cal. 2d 54 - Norton v. City of Pomona
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It does not follow, however, that the memorandum is the judgment. Until a judgment is entered, it is not effectual for any purpose (Code Civ. Proc., § 664), and at any time before it is entered, the court may change its conclusions of law and enter a judgment different from that first announced. [Citations.] Moreover, a judge who has heard the evidence may at any time before entry of judgment amend or change his findings of fact. [Citations.] ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Even if the judgment were entered nunc pro tunc, a party’s right to an appeal cannot be cut off by antedating the entry of the judgment from which he desires to appeal.”
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.