Jackson v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Bob Jones University v. United States (1983), 236 Ill. 2d 368 - Provena Covenant Medical Center v. Department of Revenue (2010)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 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 Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · William Fontain Administrator of Frederick Kohne Deceased v. William Ravenel · Bartlet v. King · Bascom v. . Albertson · Osgood v. Breed
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works or otherwise lessening the burdens of government.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is upon this ground that, in a suit instituted by the trustees of a charity to obtain the instructions of the court, the attorney general should be made a party defendant, as he has been by order of the court in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * gifts to charitable uses are highly favored, and will be most liberally construed in order to accomplish the intent and purpose of the donor * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wemme v. Noyes
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.