Phillips v. Mirac, Inc’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Ferdon Ex Rel. Petrucelli v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund (2005), Smith v. Botsford General Hospital (2005)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Plyler v. Doe · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the accommodation struck may have profound and far-reaching consequences . . . provides all the more reason for this Court to defer to the congressional judgment unless it is demonstrably arbitrary or irrational.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e exercise the power to declare a law unconstitutional with extreme caution, and we never exercise it where serious doubt exists with regard to the conflict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is for the jury to assimilate the facts presented at trial, draw inferences from those facts, and determine what happened in the case at issue.”
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.