Phillips v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1971
14 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 Martin v. Cunningham · Edmondson v. Hancock · Smith v. Mann · Keown v. Young · Retelle v. Sullivan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Do hereby relea.se and forever discharge the said [bus company] * * * from any and all liability of every kind and character * '* * growing out of * * * the accident * * * said Phillips had *■ * * with the coach of the .North Texas Coach Company.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borden v. Sneed
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.