Phillips v. Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1999
2 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Griffin v. Breckenridge · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that plaintiffs are [members of a disfavored group] does not automatically entitle them to claim that anything that has happened to them has happened because they are [members of that group].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-3389
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.