Tacker v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
November 1980
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tenneco Oil Company v. Padre Drilling Company · Phillips v. Tacker
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for purely personal services or for labor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.