Phillips v. Solomon’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1983 · most notably Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. State (1898), Mitchell v. Georgia & Alabama Railway (1900)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 28 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The discharge of the principal, which discharges a surety, must be a discharge by some act or- neglect of the creditor, and a discharge by operation of law being, as it is, against the consent and beyond the power of the creditor, does not discharge the surety.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mulvane v. Sedgley“. . unless the intent to change be clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. McDaniel
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.