United States v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.2d 689 · 1930
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1954 · most notably Lumbra v. United States (1934), Berry v. United States (1941)
41 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 United States v. Sligh · United States v. Cox · United States v. Eliasson · Ozark Pipe Line Corp. v. Decker · United States v. Schweppe
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Some persons, who are totally incapacitated for work, by virtue of strong will power may continue to work until they drop dead from exhaustion, while others with lesser will power will sit still and do nothing. Some who have placed upon them the burdens of caring for aged parents or indigent relatives, feeling deeply their responsibility and actuated by affection for those whom they desire to assist, will keep on working when they are totally unfit to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yates v. Dann
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.