Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Thomas v. State (1981), Livingston v. State (1987)
112 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 Pope v. Nebraska · American Plant Food Corporation v. State · King v. Texas · King v. State · Parr 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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Abduct' means to restrain a person with intent to prevent his liberation by: "(A) secreting or holding him in a place where he is not likely to be found; or "(B) using or threatening to use deadly force."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sanders v. State · Chew v. State“(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly abducts another person with the intent to: (4) ... violate or abuse him sexually. (b) An offense under this section is a felony of the first degree unless the actor voluntarily releases the victim alive and in a safe place, in which event it is a felony of the second degree.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bollman v. State · Chew v. State“[t]he information was essentially evidentiary rather than being required for purposes of notice.... Unless a fact is essential for notice to the defendant, the [petition] need not plead the evidence relied on by the state.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Guana v. State · LGR 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.