Phillips v. Heine’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 489 · 1993
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Chung v. U.S. Department of Justice (2003), Simon v. Republic of Iraq (2008)
9 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. · Esplin v. Hirschi
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gives the plaintiff extra time only if he needs it”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not create “an automatic extension of the statute of limitations by the length of the tolling period.” Phillips v. Heine, 984 F.2d 489, 492 (D.C.Cir.1993) (citing Cada v. Baxter Healthcare Corp., 920 F.2d 446, 452 (7th Cir.1990). Rather,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purposes of the doctrine [of equitable tolling] are fully achieved if the court extends the time for filing by a reasonable period after the tolling circumstance is mended”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.