Phillips v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
August 1998
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Edwards v. State · People v. Ah Teung · 143 W. Va. 325 - State Ex. Rel. McGilton v. Adams · Beaulieu v. State · 185 Pa. Super. 136 - Commonwealth v. Storm
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Lawful custody” speaks only to the process by which a person has been held or committed. If the process was valid then lawful custody existed, [citations omitted] A prisoner must challenge a conviction through normal trial and appellate channels. Self-help is generally not recognized as a valid method of challenging a conviction. The right to escape exists only in those extreme cases where confinement is without any authority at all. [citations omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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