Phillips v. Davis Timber Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Southland Co. v. AARON, ET UX. · City of Oxford v. Spears · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Stinson · City of Jackson v. Filtrol Corp. · Turner v. Morris
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] plaintiff may recover damage by a physical invasion of his property on a simple showing that the defendant was responsible for the physical invasion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a riparian owner sustaining substantial injuries by reason of such an invasion of his rights may maintain an action without regard to the motive which prompts the invasion, and the pollution of a stream to the injury of a lower proprietor will not be justified by the importance of the business of the upper proprietor to either the public or the wrongdoer, or by the fact that the latter is conducting such business with care and in the only known practicable mode.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the levels of PCP were sub-lethal and did not result in damage to the aquatic wildlife and to human beings,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.