Phillips v. Vandygriff’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 490 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Paul v. Davis · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Codd v. Velger · Phillips v. Vandygriff
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plainly [have] a protectable interest in not being arbitrarily or discriminatorily denied the opportunity to practice [their] profession ... [and] must be granted due process protections necessary to uphold that interest.”
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.