Phillips v. Authorized Investors Group, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2013
3 federal appellate · 14 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. · State Ex Rel. Igoe v. Bradford · Rouggly v. Whitman · Maryland Plaza Redevelopment Corp. v. Greenberg · In Re the Marriage of Galloway
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Paragraph 3 of the indenture governs the assessments. This paragraph gives the trustees authority to levy assessments against “the respective lots in the subdivision.” No lots are exempted and there is no reason for us to read in an exemption. ... Had defendant in tended to exempt itself from assessment, it could have easily used explicit language to reflect that intention. Indeed, it is apparent that defendant realized it had the power to do so. In paragraph 4 of the indenture, the trustees are authorized “to make a charge (except to Grantor) for benefit of subdivision for permits they may grant to extend water or sewer mains.... ” By this provision, defendant — the grantor — clearly exempted itself from the noted charges. Defendant could have been equally precise in paragraph 3 had it intended to exempt itself from assessment. It did not do so. The language of paragraph 3 is unambiguous. Thus, all lots in the subdivision, including defendant’s lots, are subject to assessment.”
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.