State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Holt (1980), Phillips v. Wyrick (1977)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Pointer v. Texas · Barber v. Page · Mattox v. United States · Bryant v. State · Britain v. Rice
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 560.120, RSMo 1969: “Robbery in first degree. Every person who shall be convicted of feloniously taking the property of another from his person, or in his presence, and against his will, by violence to his person, or by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person; . . . shall be adjudged guilty of robbery in the first degree.” Section 560.156, RSMo 1969: “Stealing — elements of offense. 1. As used in sections 560.156 and 560.161, the following words shall mean: (1) ‘Property’, everything of value whether real or personal, . . . and all things defined as property in sections 556.070, 556.080 and 556.090, RSMo; (2) ‘Steal’, to appropriate by exercising dominion over property in a manner inconsistent with the rights of the owner, . . Section 560.161, RSMo Supp.1975: “Penalties for stealing — fourth offense. 1. Any person convicted of stealing as provided in subsection 2 of section 560.156 shall be punished as follows: (1) If the value of the property stolen is less than fifty dollars, unless otherwise provided herein, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by confinement in the county jail for not more than one year or by both such fine and confinement; (2) If the value of the property stolen is at least fifty dollars, by imprisonment by the division of corrections for not more than ten years nor less than two years, or by confinement in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both s”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Littlefield“when testified to by an expert witness, is admissible to establish identity in criminal proceedings”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carter
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.