Phillips v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 639 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2000
9 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · 33 Ill. 2d 316 - Larson v. Commonwealth Edison Co. · Scandia Down Corporation v. Euroquilt Inc
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
2 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.