Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Valence Operating Co. v. Dorsett (2005), Harris County v. Smith (2002)
5 federal appellate · 70 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 12th District (Tyler))
Relationships
Relies on Stewart v. Basey · Lewis v. Davis · Gorman v. Life Insurance Co. of North America · Bethel v. Butler Drilling Co. · Commercial Union Insurance Co. v. La Villa Independent School District
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall set forth affirmatively ... estoppel ... and any other matter constituting an avoidance or affirmative defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In Re SAP
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.