Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 808 So. 2d 1148 - Taylor v. State (2000), 725 So. 2d 1003 - Price v. State (1997)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Burgett v. Texas
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable investigation of irregularities claimed to have been committed”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(1) the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime; (2) the witness's degree of attention; (3) the accuracy of his prior description of the criminal; (4) the level of certainty demonstrated at the identification; and (5) the time between the crime and the identification."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Where a weak link in the chain of custody is said to exist, it presents a question of the credit and weight to be accorded rather than ... the admissibility of the item.' Williams v. State, 375 So.2d 1257, 1267 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, 375 So.2d 1271 (Ala.1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armstrong v. State
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.