United States v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.2d 1395 · 1974
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Laughman (1980), United States v. Diaz-Carreon (1990)
35 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Almeida-Sanchez v. United States · Acosta v. United States · De Leon v. United States · Lehnhausen v. Lake Shore Auto Parts Co. · Texas v. Louisiana
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[pjroof of mere proximity to contraband is not sufficient to establish actual constructive possession or the element of knowledge”; distinguishing the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poindexter v. State“[a]bsent other and sufficient indicia of possession.”
1 later decision 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.