Commonwealth v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Murphy v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the jury is required to believe for conviction is that ‘five or more collaborated’ ... it is not necessary for the Commonwealth to show that each participant collaborating in the scheme collaborated with or was even aware of the collaboration of the other participants.” Commonwealth v. Phillips, Ky., 655 S.W.2d 6 (1983).”
1 later decision 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.