Phillips v. Levie’s Empirical Analysis
593 F.2d 459 · 1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably IIT v. Cornfeld (1980), Block
5 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop Co. · Arneil v. Ramsey
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.
“in the exercise of reasonable diligence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. IIT v. Cornfeld
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.