Phillips v. Ockel’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2015
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Trenton Trust Co. v. Western Surety Co. · Coonis v. Rogers · Means v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · St. Joseph Light & Power Co. v. Kaw Valley Tunneling, Inc. · Fritts v. Cloud Oak Flooring Company
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.
“requires proof of nonuse of the premises with the intention of relinquishing all property rights.”
1 later decision 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.