United States v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 1021 · 1975
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably United States v. Vargas (1978), United States ex rel. Clark v. Fike (1976)
22 federal appellate · 13 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 Berger v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Gaither v. United States · United States v. Bohle · Hall v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion, the statement of the prosecutor, left uncorrected by the court, could have led the jury to believe it had to find that the prosecutor and government witness violated the civil rights of the defendant in order to render a verdict of not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mattes v. Gagnon“'great potential for jury persuasion ... arises because the prosecutor's personal status and his role as a spokesman for the government tend to give what he says the ring of authenticity'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dansdill“you're going to have to find, I suppose, that I conspired with the agent to commit this crime by bringing it to you.”
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.