Taggart v. Tevanny’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 1978 · most notably Crampton v. Logan (1902), Knight v. Knight (1893)
48 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 Wallace v. Long · Stanton v. . Miller · Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Corps · Thomas v. Merry · Waugh v. Waugh
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The agreement may be within the statute of frauds, or it' may be so uncertain as not to be capable of enforcement. But it does not follow, by any means, that the party who performed the services under such an arrangement is wholly without remedy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Knight““. . . but we do not place our ruling upon that ground.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.