People v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 400 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 416 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Cruzan Ex Rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990), 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974)
8 federal appellate · 400 state decisions — followed in 13 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley · 60 Cal. 2d 482 - People v. Henderson · People v. Ford · People v. Washington
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 416 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anachronistically resurrects from a bygone age a `barbaric' concept that has been discarded in the place of its origin.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`deserves no extension beyond its required application.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether a felony is inherently dangerous [under the second degree felony-murder rule], the court looks to the elements of the felony in the abstract, `not the "particular”
3 later decisions 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.