Phillips v. ABC Builders, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Zapata v. Burns (1988), Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft (1985)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Freezer Storage, Inc. v. Armstrong Cork Co. · 21 Cal. 3d 624 - Regents of University of California v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Washakie County School District Number One v. Herschler · 66 Wis. 2d 382 - Kallas Millwork Corp. v. Square D Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: * * * For limitation of civil or criminal actions.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he statute in question, * * *, is not a statute of limitations but is a grant of immunity from suit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"1. The Constitution of Ohio, Bill of Rights, Section 16, provides, among other things, ‘Every person, for an injury done him in his land, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law.’ "2. It is the primary duty of courts to sustain this declaration of right and remedy, wherever the same has been wrongfully invaded.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McMacken v. State · White 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.