State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
August 2023
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Reed v. State · Sigma Reproductive Health Center v. State · Board of Medical Examiners v. Steward · Gluckstern v. Sutton · Montgomery County v. Stevens
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the Constitution was carefully written by its drafters, solemnly adopted by the constitutional convention, and approved by the people of Maryland, courts lack the discretion to freely depart from the plain language of the instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kopp v. Schrader
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.