Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2019
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
Relies on Martin Theatres of Texas, Inc. v. Bullock · Ruetz v. State · Harris v. State · Smart v. State · In re Frey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no requirement that there be an exact description.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“For example, courts have been liberal in drug cases regarding the specificity with which items to be seized must be named in the warrant since the purpose for search warrants in cases involving contraband is not necessarily to seize the specified property, but to seize property of a specified character. Warrants reciting "a quantity of heroin," "controlled drugs," and "gaming implements and apparatus," have been upheld.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[A] warrant must describe the place to be searched and the items to be searched for.'”
2 later decisions 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.