Phillips v. Joint Legislative Committee on Performance & Expenditure Review’s Empirical Analysis
637 F.2d 1014 · 1981
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 13 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 255 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Pullman-Standard v. Swint (1982), United States v. Phillips (1981)
101 federal appellate · 13 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Weinberger v. Salfi
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 255 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A denial of recusal is thus not an abuse of discretion if the complaint is `merely based upon the judge's rulings in the instant case or related cases. . . .'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept what figures are available; allow for imperfections, skewing factors, and margins of error; and then take the figures for what they are worth.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on whether joinder of all members is practicable in view of the numerosity of the class and all other relevant factors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.