Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Harris v. State (1992), Brasfield v. State (1980)
2 federal appellate · 46 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 Mills v. Alabama · Martin v. State · Brown v. State · Taylor v. State · Stephenson v. State
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Q. You are saying you never went the night together? "A. No, but we have had a relationship. "Q. You did what? "A. We have had a relationship together. "Q. All right. I can agree with that, at pistol point. "(DEFENSE ATTORNEY): Objection, if the Court please. This is a side bar remark and we object to it. We ask that counsel be asked to restrain himself and not to make these side bar remarks. We ask that the jury be instructed to disregard these remarks. "THE COURT: All right. Ladies and Gentlemen, you will disregard the last remark of counsel."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Goans v. State
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.