Vandygriff v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2,621 federal appellate · 223 district · 422 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,864 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Pierce v. Underwood (1988), Forrester v. White (1988)
2,621 federal appellate · 223 district · 422 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 Phillips v. Vandygriff · Phillips v. Vandygriff
Cited together with Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hildebrand v. Social Security Administration · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
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.