87 Misc. 2d 613 - People v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2003
9 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in no way reflected a premature conclusion as to the [defendant's] guilt, or prejudice against the [defendant], or an inability to consider the guilt or innocence of the [defendant] solely on the evidence.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Smith's letter was indeed an indiscretion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““After being selected and sworn as a juror on September 28, Mr. Smith lunched with Criminal Court Officer Rudolph Fontaine, who had attended the John Jay College of Criminal Justice with Mr. Smith’s wife. They discussed jobs in law enforcement. Mr. Fontaine told Mr. Smith of opportunities for persons with investigative backgrounds in the District Attorney’s office. Mr. Smith evinced interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. State
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.